Tri 1 Vocab Tone Words Flashcards

(20 cards)

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Punctilious

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Strictly attentive to minute details; precise

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Nascent

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Having recently come into existence; emerging

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Frank

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Open and sincere in expression; straight forward

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Amenable

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Favorably disposed; willing to change

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Pander

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To cater to the lower

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Tacit

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Implied but not expressed; unspoken

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Disingenuous

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Not straight forward; lacking insincerity

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Vacuous

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Empty; stupid

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Facetious

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Playfully humorous

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Didactic

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Intended to instruct

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Fulminate

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To denounce loudly and forcefully; to explode

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Assiduous

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Hard-working

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Egregious

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Outrageously bad; clearly wrong or illegal

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Pragmatic

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Practical

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Gregarious

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Sociable and outgoing; enjoying the company of others

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Contumacious

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Disobedient; rebellious

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Archaic

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Old-fashioned; out dated

Adj

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Cogent

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Logical and convincing

Adj

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Embellish

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To make beautiful by ornamenting; to add details, sometimes fictitious (from imagination), to a story

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Aberration

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A deviation from the way things normally occur or are preformed

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