Vocab Flashcards

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Despondent

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Feeling or showing profound hopelessness.

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Pernicious

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Causing insidious harm or ruin.
Deadly;fatal
Obsolete. Evil, wicked

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Mangy

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In poor condition; shabby

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Idolatry

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The religious worship of idols

Excessive or blind adoration, reverence, devotion

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Benevolent

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Charitable; kind

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Avid

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Enthusiastic

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Callous

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Insensitive; emotionally hardened.

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Aesthetic

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Relating to beauty

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Amiable

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Friendly

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Convoluted

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Complicated

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Concise

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Expressing much in few words

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Disillusion

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To free from false beliefs

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Disingenuous

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Insincere

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Dearth

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A lack in supply

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Exacerbate

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To increase the harshness or bitterness of

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Eloquent

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Expressing oneself powerfully and effectively