Test Words 5 Flashcards

(50 cards)

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Malaise

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Feeling of discomfort

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Egalitarian

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Based on belief that all people are equal and deserve equal rights

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Proffered

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Hold out or put forward to someone for acceptance

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Purporting

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Appear to be or do something falsely

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Fecund

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Producing many new ideas

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Pithy

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Having substance and a point

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Temerity

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Self confidence

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Vicissitudes

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Change in circumstance or fortune

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Apotheosis

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Idealization of something, Highest point

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Despondent

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Without hope

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Ebullient

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Chatting lively, talkative

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Dysphoric

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Very unhappy, uneasy or dissatisfied

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Superfluity

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An extreme excess

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Pellucid

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Clear, easily understood

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Agog

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Very eager or curious to hear or see something

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Debonair

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Stylish, Confident and Charming

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Obdurate

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Stubborn

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Munificient

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Extreme generosity

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Stonewall

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Resist intentionally

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Vanguard

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A group of people leading the way

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Assiduity

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Constant attention to what one is doing

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Caprice

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Sudden unknown change in mood

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Loath

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Loathe

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Contrivance
Scheme. The use of skill to create something, expecially with the consequent effect of artificiality
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Unassailable
Unable to be questioned or defeated
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Pervasiveness
Spreading widely throughout a group of people
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Maladroit
Clumsy
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Disabuse
Correct a persons false notion
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Debase
lower ones dignity
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Notwithstanding
In spite of, despite
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Thoroughgoing
Pay attention to every detail
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Legion
A vast number of people or things
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Denouement
The final part of a play or film, in which the plot is drawn out
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Interminable
Unable to stop, never ending
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Belie
to disguise, misleading
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Adroitly
In a very skillful way, Opposite of maladroit
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Canards
Unfounded rumour or story
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Dispatch
Send away with speed and swiftness
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Percolating
Filter gradually through a porous surface or substance
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Contrapuntal
In counterpoint
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Impute
Attribute, Represent something undesirable, as being possessed by someone
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Sobriquet
A persons nickname
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Bristle
Stand upright away from the skin, in anger or fear
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Prolixity
Using too many word, boring
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Vituperative
Bitterness & anger
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Screed
A long speech or writing, typically tedious
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Primacy
The fact of being pre-eminent or most important
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Adjudicate
Make a formal judgement on a disputed matter
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Couched
Express in a language of a specified style, lay down