Vocab Flashcards

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Gregarious

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Sociable; genial; friendly; extroverted

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Gravity

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Serious or dignified behavior; solemnity

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Guffaw

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A loud, unrestrained burst of laughter

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Guile

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Insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception

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Gustatory

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Of or pertaining to taste or tasting

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Hackneyed

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Made commonplace or trite; stale; banal

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Haltingly

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Faltering or hesitating, especially in speech

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Haughty

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Disdainfully proud, snobbish; scornfully arrogant

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Hedonist

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A person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification

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Histrionics

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Behavior or speech for effect, as insincere, dramatic

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Iconoclast

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A person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions

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Immoderate

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Excessive, extreme, exceeding reasonable limits

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Immutable

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Unchangeable,changeless

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Impetuous

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Impulsive

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Impious

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Not religious, lacking reverence for God, ungodly

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Garrulous

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Excessively talkative in a rambling manner

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Garner

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To get; acquire; earn; collect; hoard

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Garble

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To confuse unintentionally or ignorantly; jumble

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Gait

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A manner if walking, stepping or runner

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Furtive

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Taken, done, used surreptitiously or by stealth, sly

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Fractious

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Readily angered, irritable

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Fortuitous

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Happening or produced by chance, accidental

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Florid

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Reddish, rosy (for complexion); flowery (for writing)

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Fastidious

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Excessively particular, critical, or demanding

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Falter
To hesitate or waver in action, purpose, etc.
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Fallible
Liable too be wrong or false; not accurate
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Facile
Easily done
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Extrapolate
To infer that something is known
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Exposition
A large scale show of art or manufactured products; writing to present information or explanation
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Expedient
Proper under the circumstances; appropriate to gain advantage, as opposed to right
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Exegesis
Critical explanation or interpretation of a text
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Execrable
Utterly detestable; abominable; abhorrent
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Exculpate
To clear for a charge of guilt or fault; vindicate; free from blame
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Exacerbate
To increase the severity or violence of; aggravate; irritate
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Evanescent
Vanishing; fading away; fleeting
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Euphony
Agreeableness of sound, pleasing to the ear
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Estrange
To make unfriendly or hostile; to keep at a distance
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Epicure
A person who cultivates a refined taste; connoisseur
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Ephemeral
Lasting a short time; transitory
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Enhance
To raise to a higher degree; intensify
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Engender
To produce, cause, procreate
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Enervate
To deprive of strength; weaken
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Emulate
To try to equator excel; imitate
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Empathy
The intellectual identification with emotion of others
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Embroil
To bring into discord or conflict, to throw into confusion