Vocab Flashcards

Question

Caterwaul

Answer 1

Loudmouth, clamour, vociferous

Answer 2

Making long speeches to waste time Irregular military adventure

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Something that starts something

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Important, cogent, main point of something

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Incomplete, in development

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Weary, apprehensive

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Beg for something

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Hate something, curse

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Intelligent

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Shy, quiet, modest

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Appease, assuage, placate

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Lukewarm Dull, sluggish in mind, numb, dormant, apathetic Vapid

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Dull, sluggish in mind, numb, dormant, apathetic Torpid Tepid

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Greediness, Rapacity (rapacious), mercenary

Answer 15

Having human like attributes

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Pedestrian, related to walking, travelling from place to place ITINERANT Vagabond, vagrant

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Pedestrian, related to walking, travelling from place to place Peripatetic Vagabond, vagrant

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Having a false look of truth, beguiling, sophistic

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Generous, charitable

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Emotionless, stolid

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To relieve of responsibility or hardship To clear from accusation or blame

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Someone w superficial interest in a topic Dabbler Tinkerer

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Very attentive to detail, scrupulous, punctilious

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Bitterness, hate, spite

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Daily Commonplace, ordinary

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Smear, anoint To ornament w vulgar excess

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Intrepid Outstanding strength/vigour of mind/body

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Keen, sharp, perceptive, incisive

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To lower in rank/prestige

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To fall sharply

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Relating to vertigo/dizziness Smth that changes frequently

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Uneasy, fidgety

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Casual, heedless, disregarding

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Relief, aid

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Smallness of number, quantity Dearth

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Promptness in response, cheerful readiness

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Astuteness, sharp depth of perception, wit

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Apprehensive, anxious

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To be in motion Funny

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To make fruitful or productive

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Idyllic, happy and prosperous times

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Hinder, thwart

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Roughness of manner or tongue Severity Acrimony Vitriol Caustic

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Smartly dressed, stately

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Having knowledge that is gained by studying

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Weak, worthless

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Characterised by deception from the truth, Not completely true (Belie)

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Designated I’m entitled to the appellation “engineer”

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Filthy, degraded

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Mysterious, not easily understood Runic Abstruse Arcane Recondite Esoteric (understood by a small group)

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Mysterious, inscrutable Abstruse Arcane Recondite Esoteric (understood by a small group)

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Belligerent Bellicose Harsh, cruel, savage

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To concede reluctantly Begrudge: envy

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The quality of change, mutability The vicissitudes of daily life: changes in daily life

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Evenness of mind

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Having no emotions, hardened/thickened

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To avoid, esp on moral grounds

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Relapse, esp into criminal act

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Scene of uproar or confusion

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Censure, assail, castigate, reprobate, impugn

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Censure, assail, castigate, reprobate, impugn, excoriate

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Extremely loud

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To second smth To support/assist in smth

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Inevitable

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To deny/renounce To surrender/relinquish

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Extol, glorify, raise in rank

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To deprive of vital content, disembowel

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Showing or having no energy

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Insolence, audacity

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Declare positively, insist upon

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Entice, win over by wiles

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Soothing, (emulsion kinda oily kinda smooth n soothing)

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To cleanse of smth morally harmful, EXPUNGE

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Harmful in a sudden/unexpected way

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Offhand, nonchalant, lacking in substance (superficial)

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Weigh down, burden, hinder

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Profitable

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Disinterested: unbiased Uninterested: bored

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Prolong, delay, defer Continue

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To praise, support

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Creative, original

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Banal, trite, lacking in originality

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Prophetic, prescient, foresight (slightly in a foreboding sense)

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Replacing an offensive phrasing in a less offensive manner

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Art of speaking/writing effectively

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Slander Calumny Traduce Libel Defame Asperse

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Oscillate, fluctuate

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To declare assuredly (aver)

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In architecture: wood or smth to SUPPORT the building Smth that supports or strengthens

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Refuse to accept Disavow Disclaim

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Paraphrase Write down

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Waste Disperse/Scatter

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Sadness, hopelessness

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Annul Abolish by authoritative action

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To divide into classes (strata)

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Overwhelm, overflow

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Distribute

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Appropriate, apt

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Bombastic Pompous Too extravagant (esp in manner of language)

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To present smth for acceptance

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Repudiate - Refuse to accept Refuse to acknowledge - disclaim

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Stubbornly determined Bullheaded

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Not holding back Giving freely or generously

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Impudent Insolent Audacious Rude

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Garrulous Full of excessive talk

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Arcane Mysterious Runic Recondite Esoteric (understood by few)

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Understood by very few people, generally those who theorised/made it

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Abstruse Arcane Mysterious Runic Inscrutable

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Asperity Vitriol Caustic

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Not providing for future Myopic Shortsighted

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Providing for future Frugal Sustainable

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irritable CANTANKEROUS Mischievous (sometimes)

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Irritable Ornery

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Uprightness Adherence to highest principles or ideals

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Evoking pity or compassion

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Someone who opposes set beliefs Bohemian (which can also mean vagrant)

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Trivial, frivolous

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Pompous, extravagant, grandiloquent, gaseous

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Attack - physical: beat, whip - verbal: censure, assail, vituperate

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Deceptive in words or actions

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To make rare (less dense, thin, porous) To make more spiritual/abstruse

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Acrimony Asperity Caustic

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Lie Fabricate Equivocate

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Hostile Adverse Unfriendly

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VESTIGIAL ORGAN: appendix That which is now a small and defunct part of something that existed before

Answer 126

Tryst Setting up time n place for a meeting

Answer 127

Exaggerated self confidence or pride

Answer 128

Prevaricate Fabricate Lie

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Subject to two or more interpretations, unclear

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Being happy

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Not possible to defend (untenable position) Not possible to occupy (untenable apartment)

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Soothing, mild, demulcent CRAZY/FOOLISH (eg. balmy policy of govt)

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Burdensome

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Empty like vacuum If mind is empty-> Vacuous: inane, stupid

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Leader who makes use of prejudices or false claims

Answer 136

Separate out, sift Remove undesirable content

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Deadly, wicked

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Send forth censures Basically send jabs at smth, speak against smth

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Lack of stuff: poverty/extreme frugality

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Obstruct, hide smth, conceal

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Relaxation of strained relations

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Forged Spurious Of doubtful authenticity

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Forged Apocryphal Of doubtful authenticity

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Exuberant Joyous Flamboyant

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Ebullient Joyous Flamboyant

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Related to time (not eternal)

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Heterogenous mix

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Just devoted to a doctrine without regard for practical considerations Eg. religious extremists

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Jetsam Throw out useless stuff

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Healthy Promoting good health

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Disconcerting Weird/embarrassing

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Flowery, ornate

Vocab Flashcards

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