Vocab Flashcards

(38 cards)

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Cosmopolitan

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At home all over the world

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Raffish*

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Gaudily vulgar or cheap

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Incongruous

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Out of place, inconsistent

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Vivacity

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Liveliness

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Heterogeneous

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Different

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Unrefined*

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Coarse or crude

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Ominously

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Threatening

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Perpetrated

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To commit (crime)

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Improvident

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Incautious

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Lurid

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Glaringly vivid, horrible

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Vivid

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Intense, bright

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Indolently

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Slothful, slow

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Feigned

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Pretended, fictitious

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Diffidently

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Lacking confidence

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Gaudy

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Excessively showy

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Bestial

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Contemptuously

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Expressing disrespect

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Affectation

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Effort to appear to have a quality

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Demureness

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Shyness and modesty

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Reproving

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To criticize or correct

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Saccharine

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Exaggeratedly sweet

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Contemptible

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Repertoire

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Ineffectual

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Futile, without decisive effect

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Amiability
Friendly, sociable
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Indistinguishable
Not distinguishable
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Uncavalier*
Discourteous, ungentleman
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Uncouth*
Awkward, uncivil, rough
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Spectral
Pertaining to a ghost
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Transitory
Temporary
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Destitute
Lacking food, shelter, clothing
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Sinuously
Having many curves or turns
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Prodigiously
Extraordinary in size
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Callous
Insensitive, indifferent
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Perplexity
Confusion, tangled
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Divested
To rid of or free from
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Pinions
Grasp and pin down
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Voluptuously
Sensuous, luxury, pleasure