Units 6 & 7 Flashcards by alex dimitroff

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Bruit

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Noise abroad, broadcast, blazon

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Abortive

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Miscarried, fruitless, premature

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Contumelious

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Humiliating, vituperative, scurrilous, excoriating

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Dictum

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Maxim, precept, aphorism, axiom

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Ensconce

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nestle, lodge, entrench

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Iconoclastic

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Image-breaking, irreverent, heretical

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In medias res

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In the middle of things

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Internecine

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Mutually destructive, murderous, savage, ruinous,

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Maladroit

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Inept, awkward, clumsy, gauche

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Maudlin

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Mushy, mawkish

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Modulate

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Temper, soften, adjust, regulate, adapt, moderate

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Portentous

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Pompous, foreboding, ominous, pretentious

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Prescience

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Foresight, foreknowledge

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Quid pro quo

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Swap, trade

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Salubrious

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Wholesome, beneficial, healthy, invigorating

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Saturnalian

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Dissipated, debauched, orgiastic

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Touchstone

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Criterion, yardstick, benchmark

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Traumatic

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Jolting

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Vitiate

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Weaken, debase, corrupt, degrade, undermine

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Wagging

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Droll, whimsical, jocular

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Abeyance

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Suspended, deferment, postponement, suspension

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Ambivalent

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Equivocal, ambiguous, of two minds

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Beleaguer

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Surround, harass, trouble, besiege, encircle, pester

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Carte Blanche

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Blank check, free rein

Cataclysm

Deluge, disaster, catastrophe

Debauch

Seduce, carouse, spree, orgy

Éclat

Great brilliance, celebrity

Fastidious

Easily disgusted, precise, meticulous, exacting, finicky

Gambol

Frolic, romp, cavort, caper

Imbue

Infuse, instill, inculcate

Inchoate

Just beginning, incipient, embryonic, rudimentary

Lampoon

Satire, satirize, ridicule, burlesque, parody

Malleable

Pliable, impressionable, adaptable

Nemesis

Unbeaten rival, comeuppance, avenger

Opt

Choose, select, decide,

Philistine

Boorish, lowbrow, yahoo

Picaresque

Roguish, rascally, rakish

Queasy

Nauseated, uneasy, troubled, unsettled

Refractory

Stubborn, unruly, disobedient, willful, mulish

Savoir-faire

Social competence, tact, finesse, suavity, sophistication