Vocab 4 Flashcards by Daphne Cheung

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jettison

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abandon or discard something

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guile

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sly or cunning

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expeditious

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done with speed and efficiency

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evanescent

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ephemeral, transient, disappearing

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effervesce

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vivacious, ebullient, enthusiastic

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pretext

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an excuse or a reason to do something

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distend

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make something swell from the inside

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discrepancy

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lack of compatibility or similarity between two things

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corrugated

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shaped with ridges and grooves (like cardboard)

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convivial

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genial, friendly, amiable, gregarious

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congeal

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solidify by cooling

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confide

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tell someone a secret while trusting them not to tell

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cohere

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to form a whole

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vindictive

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seeking revenge

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usurp

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to seize and take control

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suave

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urbane, sophisticated, polite

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unassuming

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not arrogant, modest

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torpor

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inactivity

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terse

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expressed in few words; laconic, pithy

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adage

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a proverb or maxim

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debacle

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a failure

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extricate

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to free someone from difficulty

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extemporize

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improvise

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tenure

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a term of office

wan

pale, comatose

emaciated

skinny, thin and weak

recondite

esoteric

elegiac

sorrowful, mournful

reprove

censure, criticize

craven

lacking courage; cowardly

prolix

verbose, convoluted

asinine

foolish and dumb (inane, moronic)

apogee

zenith, pinnacle

sapient

sharp-minded, acute, ingenious

clandestine

done secretly (think: Frankenstein)

pariah

a social outcast

neoteric

modern

circumspect

to be meticulous and scrupulous

perdurable

permanent, enduring

itinerant

wandering (peripatetic, nomadic)

vulpine

relating to foxes; sly and cunning

acquisitive

materialistic, interested in money

adulate

to praise and laud

obstreperous

rebellious

soporific

sleep-inducing, boring

dilatory

causing delay

chaste

pure and clean, virgin

juggernaut

overwhelming force

perfunctory

done without much care or effort

abstemious

austere and ascetic