Vocab 1 Flashcards
(100 cards)
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Lugubrious
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exaggeratedly mournful
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Lucid
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clear, easy to understand
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Loquacious
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Talking alot or too much
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Intransigent
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uncompromising, subborn
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Propensity
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a natural inclination or tendency
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Sagacious
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discerning, shrewd; keen in judgement; wise
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Fastidious
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Meticulous, demanding, finicky
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Ephemeral
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Lasting a very short time
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Efficacious
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Have the power to produce a desired effect
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Ostensible
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apparent (but misleading)
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Engender
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Bring into existance; to create; to cause
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Parochial
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narrow or confined in point of view
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Parsimonious
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stingy
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Parsimony
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The practice of being stingy
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Pedantic
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Boringly scholarly or academic
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Pejorative
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negative or disparaging
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Lubricious
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1) slippery, smooth, oily
2) lewd, salacious
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Purported
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Rumored, claimed
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Salacious
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Lewd, erotic
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Autonomous
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acting independently
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Belie (bee-lie_
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to give a false impression, to contradict
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Auspicious
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Favorable; promising; pointing to a good result
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Repudiate
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To reject, to disown. To have nothing to do with
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Promulgate
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to proclaim; to publicaly or formally declare something
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instatable
hard or impossible to satisfy
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avarice
greed; excessive love of riches
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avaricious
greedy
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furtive
secretive, sly
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espouse
to support; to advocate
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discern
to have insight; to see things clearly
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conjecture
to guess; to deduce or infer on slight evidence
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obtuse
slow to understand, stupid, insensitive, blockheaded
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rapacious
greedy
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recidivism
a life of crime
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surreptitious
acting or done stealthly; sneaky; secret
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endemic
peculiar to a particular locality, nation or circumstance
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lexicon
a collection of the words of a language and their definitions; a dictionary
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disingenuous
1) withholding information
| 2) not genuinely sincere
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dranconian
too harsh; unjustly harsh or severe
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sanguine
1) confident
2) blood red
3) rosy
4) blood thirsty
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bifurcate
to divide into two branches; to fork.
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putative
reputed, supposed
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redonkulous
rediculous to an almost impossible extreme
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verbose
using too many words
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obnubilate
make less visable or unclear
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moot
1) open to argument or discussion; debatable
| 2) rendered abstract
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mollify
to soften in temper or disposition; pacify; sooth
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sanctimonious
pretending to be devout
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superfluous
extra; unncessary; redundant
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incessant
continuous; unceasing
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incipient
beginning; commencing
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precocious
mature before the natural time; prematurely developed; forward
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judicious
having or exercising sound judgement
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expeditious
acting or done speedily and efficiently
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temerity
boldness; recklessness; audacity
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supercilious
patronizing
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sycophant (sik - uh- funt)
one who sucks up to others
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salutary
healthful; remedial; curative
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veracious
truthful
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obdurate
sutbborn, inflexible
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occlude
to obstruct or block
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perspicacious (per spa kay shus)
acutely perceptive; showing great insight or judgement
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castigate
1) to inflict severe punishment on
| 2) to criticize severely
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vociferous
noisy outcry
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pernicious
causing serious harm; malicious
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impunity
exemption from penalty, harm or punishment
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audacious
fearlessly, often recklessly daring; bold
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pugnacious
eager to fight; aggressive
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innocuous
1) not injurious, harmless
| 2) insignificant and dull
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ingratiate (in gray she ayt)
to bring (oneself) into a person's favor, especially in order to gain an advantage
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demonstrative
1) serving to demonstrate
| 2) cahracterized by or given to open exhimition or expression of one's emotions, attitudes
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indicative
showing, signifying, or pointing out; expressive or suggestive
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odious
highly offensive, repugnant; discusting
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Meme
a culterial item that is transmitted by repetition in a manner analogious to the biological transmission of genes
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extrapolate
to use known facts as the starting point from which to draw inferences or conclusions about shomething unknown.
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animus
a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will.
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incendiary
1) a person who commits arson
2) of or pertaining to criminal setting on fire of property
3) a person who excites factions
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discursive
moving from topic to topic without order
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commodious
1) spacious, roomy
| 2) ample or adequate for a particular purpose
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inure
to accustom or accept something undesirable
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averse
having an active feeling or repugnance or distaste
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pugilistic
relating to boxing or fighting with one's fists
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rapscallion
a disreputable person
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recondite
understood only by experts dealing with difficult material
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abstuse
obscure; difficult to understand
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isomorphic
having the same form or appearance as another
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elucidate
to explain or clarify something
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inscrutable
mysterious; not expressing anything clearly and thus hard to interpret
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denigrate
1) to attack somebody's character or reputation
| 2) disparage and belittle
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refute
1) prove something wrong
| 2) deny something
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cogent
rationally persuasive
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morose
gloomy
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devisive
causing disagreement
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sardonic
disdainfully or cynically mocking
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incredulous
unwilling to believe; showing disbelief
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mellifluous
pleasant to hear
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stolid
not exicitable
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egregious
conspicuously bad or offensive
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conspicuous
obvious, attracting attention
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anomalous
irregluar, unusual
