Test Words 11 Flashcards by Anil Saddat

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Tawdry

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Ostentatious, showy but cheap

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Treacly

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Excessively sentimental

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Studied

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Achieved by careful, deliverate effort

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Hagiography

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Biography with undue reverence

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Numinous

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Strong religious quality; Suggesting the presence of divinity

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Convivial

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Freindly

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Solipsism

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Self centered

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Salient

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Most important

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Hemmed in

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Prevent from change

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Ineluctable

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Inescapable,Unable to resist

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Aloof

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Not freindly

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Inviolate

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Free from violation

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Incarnation

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embody diety, spirit, quality

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Atavism

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Recurrence of or reversion to a past style

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Thrall

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Under someones power

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Fiddle

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Touch or Fidget with something restlessly

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Wont

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Likely

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Patina

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Appearance of

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Ineffable

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Too great to express in wordsP

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Prudent

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Care or thoughful of the future

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Foible

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A minor weakness in someones character

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Apollonian

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Rational, Ordered and Self Disciplined aspects of human nature.

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Pared down

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Cut something to its simplest form

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Canny

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Good judgement with money

Provident

Timely prep for the future

Veracity

Being accurate

Undergird

Support

Cupability

Blame, Responsibility of fault

Susceptible

Likely to be harmed

Savvy

Practical Knowledge

Entrapment

State of being caught

Disheveled

Untidy

Arcane

Known only by few, mysterious

Unwittingly

Unintentionally

Blithely

Cheerful indifference

Scant

Barely sufficient

Poring

Be absorned in reading or studying

Faltering

Losing Strength or momentum

Derisive

Expressing contempt or ridicule

Fortitude

Courage in pain and hardship

Marring

Impair the quality and appearance of

Forbidding

Unfreindly appearance

Stilted

Stiff or self concious or unnatural

Endue

Endow

Begrudge

Envy someones possession or quality

Furor

An outbreak of anger or excitement

Unstinting

Unsparing, without resistance

Preponderance

being greater in quantity or importance

Ambit

Scope or extent

Impugn

Call into question, dispute the truth or validity of a statement.