Text Completion Flashcards
(34 cards)
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Tempestuous
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Showing violent behavior
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Petulant
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Easily annoyed
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Placid
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Not easily irritated
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Mercurial
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Subject to sudden unpredictable change
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Piliant
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Able to adjust
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Intrinsic
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Belonging to something by nature
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Ephemeral
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Lasting a short period of time
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Frenetic
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Excessively agitated
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Affords
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Gives access to
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Arrogate
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To take or claim
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Eschew
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To avoid on purpose
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Inter
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To place in a grave
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Imbue
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Inspire, to fill, to soak
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Floundering
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To struggle helplessly
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Apogee
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A final climatic stage
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Epiphany
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A realization
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Capitulate
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Give in to demands
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Impugn
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To dispute the truth, to attack as wrong
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Acrimony
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Bitter feelings
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Cacophony
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Loud, harsh, confusing sounds
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Sinecure
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A position requiring little to no work
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Gainsaid
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Contradicted or denied
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Dilapidated
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Fallen into decay and ruin
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Diminutive
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Very small
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Ostentatious
Intended to attract notice
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Orator
A person who gives a speech
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Miscreant
A person without moral scruples
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Scruples
Feelings of doubt regards to morality
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Interloper
Someone who intrudes on the privacy of others, someone who becomes involved in a situation they are not wanted
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Duress
Compulsory force or threat
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Ebullience
Overflow with eager enjoyment
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Ignoble
Not noble
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Precarious
Not secure
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Facetious
Cleverly amusing in tone
