Vocab Flashcards

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Substantive

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independent.

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Hearsay

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gossip; rumor

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Fallacy

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misleading

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Equivocation

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to mislead

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Redolent

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Good smelling

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Deficient

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inadequate

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Indicative

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Foreshadowing

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Cosseted

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to treat as a pet

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Laconic

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Expressing much in a few words

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Disingenuous

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Lacking candor

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Corrosive

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corroding

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Mercurial

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quick-witted.

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Reticent

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reserved

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Assiduous

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constant in effort

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Fallible

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capable of being mistaken

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Provident

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providing for future needs

Cautious,prudent

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Clairvoyant

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having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range of natural vision

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Perceiving

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to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses

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Quixotic

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impulsive and often rashly unpredictable.tr

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Hypothetical

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pertaining to, involving, or characterized by hypothesis

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Inescapable

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incapable of being escaped, ignored, or avoided

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Deluded

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to mislead the mind or judgment of; deceive

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Rapturous

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full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight

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Nihilistic

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the total rejection of established laws and institutions

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Intractable
not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable;stubborn
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Phlegmatic
not easily excited to action or display of emotion
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Dispensed
to deal out; distribute
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Morose
Gloomy
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Facetious
amusing; humorous.
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Obdurate
unmoved by persuasion, pity, stubborn; unyielding.
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Sanguine
having blood as the humor and consequently being ruddy-faced, cheerful,reddish
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Controvertible
to argue about; debate; discuss.
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Vertiginous
affected with vertigo; dizzy
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Inconsolable
Cannot be comforted
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Sedulous
persistently or carefully maintained
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Somnolent
Sleepy
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Fractious
Easily angered; peevish; irritable; unruly
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Inveterate
settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling,
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Benevolent
desiring to help others; charitable
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Cantankerous
disagreeable to deal, peevish, quarrelsome
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Spavins
A disorder of a horses hock