Test Words 2 Flashcards by Anil Saddat

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Rapturous

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Characterized by feeling

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Mired

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Entangle, stuck in mud.

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Archaic

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Doing things in an old fashioned way

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Astute

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Very Knowledgable

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Redoubtable

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Formidable, Intimidating

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Specious

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Misleading in an attractive way

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Epigrammatic

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Concise, Clever and Amusing saying

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Consigned

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To give credit to someone

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Apothegm

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A short powerful statement

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Marginalia

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Non-essential or uneccessary

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Paucity

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Presence of something in small amounts

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Smattering

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Presence of something in small amounts

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Disarming

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Charm people

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Retiring

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Not interacting with people

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Promulgated

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Promote or make widely known

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Foist

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Impose an unwelcome or uneccessary thing on

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Decadent

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Moral cultural decline, someone who is luxuriously self indulgent

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Scandalous

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Disgracefully bad

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Renascence

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Revival of something that has been dormant

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Reprise

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Comeback again

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Resprisal

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Seek Revenge, eye for an eye moment

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Frailty

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Weakness

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Hubris

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Exxagerated pride or self confidence

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Perennial

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Happen over and over again

Protracted

Takes longer and longer time

Lachrymose

Teary eyed

Penurious

Having no money

Stultified

Held back, limited or stagnated

Assuaged

Calm down, make happy

Spurned

Rejected someone

Bulwark

Fortification, a defensive wall

Bastion

Stronghold

Detente

Easing of hostility

Dimunition

Reduce in size

Admonished

Warn

Tangential

Unrelated

Discomfited

Uncomfortable, Upset by something or disturbed

Ruffled

Upset, Disturbed

Caviling

Finding petty faults

Doting

Excessive care of someone

Carping

Finding fault

Groveling

Acting sychophantic

Languish

Forced to live in unpleasant conditions

Artifice

Trickery

Brusquely

Done tersely with a sense of rudeness

Strictures

Strict

Oeuvre

The body of work of a painter, composer or author

Unbridled

Unrestrained

Blase

Carefree

Cavalier

Carefree, Not worthy of attention