Vocab Flashcards
(50 cards)
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Ameliorate
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To improve, make better
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Approbation
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Praise, official approval
3
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Assuage
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Satisfy, to make easier
4
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Disabuse
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To free from error
5
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Extricate
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To free from entanglements or difficulties
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Immutable
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Constant, not subject to change
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Intrinsic
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Inherit, essential, pertaining from body part
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Tenuous
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Thin, not dense
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Transient
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Fleeting, for short time
10
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Vicarious
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Performed throughout another
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austere
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sever, stern
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beneficent
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performing acts of charity
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cadaverous
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pale
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concoct
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to prepare by adding ingredients
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crass
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course
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debase
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to lower in character or value
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desecrate
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to contaminiate, pollute
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diconcert
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to confuse
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grandiose
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absurdly outrageous
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inconsequential
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unimportant
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infraction
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breaking of law or obligation
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mitigate
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to make milder
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pillage
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to plunder
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prate
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talk foolishly
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punctilious
very careful, exact
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redoubtable
inspiring fear
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reprove
to find fault with
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restitution
act of restoring
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stalwart
strong, sturdy, brave
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vulnerable
open to attack
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acrimonious
stinging, bitter
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bovine
cow or ox
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consternation
confusing
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corpulent
fat, large body
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disavow
deny responsibility
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dispassionate
calm, free from emotion
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dissension
disagreement
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dissipate
to cause to disapper
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expurgate
to cleanse, purify
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gauntlet
protective glove
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hypothetical
based on assumption or question
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ignoble
mean, low, unhonorable
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impugn
to call to question
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intemperate
lacking self control
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odium
hatred, contempt
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perfidy
faithlessness, treachery
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relegate
to place in lower position
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squeamish
inclined to nausea
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subservient
obedient
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susceptible
open to, easily influenced
