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Vocab 4 Flashcards

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Acerbic

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Having a sour or bitter taste or character, sharp, biting

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Aggrandize

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To increase in intensity, power, influence, or prestige

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Alchemy

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A medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals especially base metals into gold

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Amenable

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Agreeable, responsive to suggestion

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Anachronism

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Something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context, something inconsistent with the time period

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Astringent

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Having a tightening effect on living tissue, harsh, severe

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Contiguous

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Sharing a border, touching, adjacent

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Convention

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A generally agreed upon practice or attitude

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Credulous

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Tending to believe too readily, gullible

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Cynicism

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An attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness

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Decorum

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Polite or appropriate conduct or behavior

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Derision

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Scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment

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Desiccate

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To dry out or dehydrate, to make dry or dull

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Dilettante

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One with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge

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Disparage

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To slight or belittle

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Divulge

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To disclose something secret

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17
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Fawn

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To flatter or praise excessively

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Flout

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To show contempt for, as in a rule or convention

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Garrulous

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Pointlessly talkative, talking too much

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Glib

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Marked by ease or informality, nonchalant, lacking in depth, superficial

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Hubris

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Overbearing presumption or pride, arrogance

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Imminent

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About to happen, impending

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Immutable

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Not capable of change

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Impetuous

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Hastily or rashly energetic, impulsive and vehement

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Indifferent

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Having no interest or concern, showing no bias or prejudice

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Inimical

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Damaging, harmful, injurious

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Intractable

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Not easily managed or directed, stubborn, obstinate

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Intrepid

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Steadfast and courageous

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29
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Laconic

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Using few words, terse

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Maverick

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An independent individual who does not go along with a group or party

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Mercurial

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Characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood

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Mollify

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To calm or soothe, to reduce in emotional intensity

33
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Neophyte

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A recent convert, a beginner, a novice

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Obfuscate

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To deliberately obscure, to make confusing

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Obstinate

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Stubborn, hard headed, uncompromising

36
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Ostentatious

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Characterized by or given to pretentious display, showy
“books that people buy and display ostentatiously but never actually finish”

37
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Pervade

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To permeate throughout

38
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Phlegmatic

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Calm, sluggish, unemotional

39
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Plethora

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An overabundance, a surplus

40
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Pragmatic

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Practical rather than idealistic

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Presumptuous

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Overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy), taking liberties

42
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Pristine

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Pure, uncorrupted, clean

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Probity

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Adherence to highest principles, complete and confirmed integrity, uprightness
“Can he vouch for the probity of his colleagues?”

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Proclivity

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A natural predisposition or inclination

45
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Profligate

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Excessively wasteful, recklessly extravagant
“Profligate consumers of energy”

46
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Propensity

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A natural inclination or tendency, penchant

47
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Prosaic

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Dull, lacking in spirit or imagination

48
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Pungent

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Characterized by a strong, sharp smell or taste

49
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Quixotic

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Foolishly impractical, marked by lofty romantic ideals
“A vast and perhaps quixotic project”

50
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Quotidian

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Occurring or recurring daily, commonplace
“The car sped off through the quotidian traffic”

51
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Rarefy

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To make or become thin, less dense, to refine

52
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Recondite

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Hidden, concealed, difficult to understand, obscure
“The book is full of recondite information”

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Refulgent

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Radiant, shiny, brilliant
“Refulgent blue eyes”

54
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Renege

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To fail to honor a commitment, to go back on a promise
“They have reneged on their promise to us”

55
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Sedulous

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Diligent, persistent hard working
“He watched himself with the most sedulous care”

56
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Shard

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A piece of broken pottery or glass

57
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Soporific

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Causing drowsiness, tending to induce sleep

58
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Sparse

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Thin, not dense, arranged at widely spaced intervals

59
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Spendthrift

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One who spends money wastefully

60
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Subtle

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Not obvious, elusive, difficult to discern

61
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Tacit

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Implied, not explicitly stated

62
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Terse

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Brief and concise in wording

63
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Tout

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To publicly praise or promote

64
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Trenchant

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Sharply perceptive, keen, penetrating, vigorous in expression or style

65
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Unfeigned

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Genuine, not false or hypocritical

66
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Untenable

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Indefensible, not viable, uninhabitable

67
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Vacillate

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To waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another

68
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Variegated

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Multicolored, characterized by a variety of patches of different color

69
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Vexation

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Annoyance, irritation

70
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Vigilant

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Alertly watchful

71
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Vituperate

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To use harsh condemnatory language, to abuse or censure severely or abusively, to berate

72
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Volatile

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Readily changing to a vapor, changeable, fickle, explosive

73
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Intrepid

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fearless; adventurous (often used for rhetorical or humorous effect)

74
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Extoll

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To praise lavishly

75
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Preen

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  1. (of a person) devote effort to making oneself look attractive and then admire one’s appearance.
  2. congratulate or pride oneself.
76
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Recalcitrant

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having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline.
“a class of recalcitrant fifteen-year-olds”

77
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Truculence

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the quality or attitude of being aggressively hostile; belligerence

78
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Prevarication

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the fact of avoiding telling the truth or saying exactly what you think

79
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Vitiate

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  1. spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of. “development programs have been vitiated by the rise in population”
  2. destroy or impair the legal validity of. “the insurance is vitiated because of foolish acts on the part of the tenant”

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