Test Words 15 Flashcards
(85 cards)
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Ennui
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Dissatisfaction
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Effrontery
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Extreme boldness
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Exigent
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Urgent
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Extemporaneous
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done without preparation
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Fulminate
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To attack loudly
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Neologism
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A new word
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Paean
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A song of praise
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Prattle
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To babble meaninglessly
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Charry
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Wary
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Complaisance
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Willingness to comply with the will of others
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Demur
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To oppose
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Impecunious
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Lacking funds
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Incipient
A
Coming into being
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Inveigle
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Obtain by deception
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Odious
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Evoke intense aversion
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Preen
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To dress up
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Quaff
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Drink deeply
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Quiscence
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Stillness
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Grandiloquence
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Pompous speech
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Idolatrous
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Excessive devotion to something
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Impassive
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Showing no emotion
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Impertubable
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Extreme calm
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Infelicitious
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Unfortunate
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Occlude
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To block
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Rancorous
Bitter resentment
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Recalcitrant
Defiant of authority
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Astringent
Tightening effect
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Tenuous
Having little substance or strength
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Contiguous
Sharing a border
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Impetuous
done with haste
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Pervade
To permeate throughout
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Rarefy
Thin, Meager
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Refulgent
Shining Brightly
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Variegated
Multicolored
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Terse
Brief
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Trenchant
Sharply perceptive
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Unfeigned
Genuine not false
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August
Majestic, vulnerable
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Essay
to test or try
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Fell
To cause to fall by striking
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Flag
To sag or droop
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Flippant
Sarcastic
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Ford
Cross at a shallow place
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Grouse
Complain or grumble
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List
lean on one side
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Meet
Fitting
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Nice
fussy
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Pied
Multicolored
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Pluck
Courage
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Prize
Taken by force
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Nail
To complain
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Rent
torn
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Quail
To lose courage
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Scurvy
Dispicable
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Stand
A group of trees
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Waffle
To equivocate
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Abjure
To renounce or reject solemnly
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Adumbate
to suggest sketchily
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Asservate
To aver or assert
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Chimera
an illusion
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Contumely
insult
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Descry
to catch sight of
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Desuetude
A state of disuse
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Desultory
lack of planning
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Disaphonous
Transparent
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Dirge
A song of grief or lament
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Encomium
Enthusiastic praiseE
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Expiate
make ammends for
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Fatuous
Silly, foolish
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Heterodox
Heretical
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Imbroglio
Embarrasing situation
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Lubricious
Wanton, loud
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Minatory
Menacing
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Palliate
Seem less serious
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Peroration
Concluding part of a speech
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Plangent
Loud, reverbarating
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Propitiate
to appease
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Puerile
Childish
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Puissance
Power
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Sagacious
Having sound judgement
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Sententious
Aphoristic or moralistic
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Stentorian
Extremely loud and powerful
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Stygian
Gloomy
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Tendentious
Biased
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Invidious
Likely to anger
