Vocab 7 Flashcards by Daphne Cheung

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sundry

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of various kinds; myriad

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prosaic

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lacking elegance; commonplace, trite

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renege

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go back to a promise or contract

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commiseration

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sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

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extirpation

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destroy completely

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retrenched

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reduce in extent or quantity

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abrogated

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to repeal or do away with

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predilection

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a special liking for something; bias

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beleaguer

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beset with difficulties

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cathartic

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releasing emotions (relief)

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reverberate

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to echo

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pandering

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gratify or indulge

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seditious

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causing people to rebel

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clairvoyant

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able to see the future

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autarchy

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totalitarian, tyranny

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diffuse

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convoluted, verbose

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tautological

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saying the same thing in two ways

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fatuous

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foolish and dumb

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impressionable

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gullible, easily influenced

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incredulous

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not easily believing things

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credulous

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believing things easily

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ingratiating

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unctuous, servile, sycophantic

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mutinous

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refusing to obey orders

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subservient

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prepared to obey others unquestioningly

censorious

critical; tending to blame and condemn

caucus

a committee

captious

tending to point out trivial faults

milieu

surroundings; environs

malevolent

malignant; wanting to harm

stasis

equilibrium

unfrock

to dethrone

usury

practice of lending money at exorbitant rates (loan shark)

peregrinate

travel by foot

consternation

the intense state of fear or dismay

amorphous

having no definite form

apposite

appropriate or well adapted

elegy

a mournful poem, usually about the dead

illusory

deceptive, producing illusion

stalwart

loyal, diligent and trustworthy

imprecation

a curse

philistine

a person who is materialistic

plaintive

expressive of suffering or woe, melancholy

sequester

to seclude and set apart

sanctimonious

hypocritically devout

saturnine

cold and steady in mood, gloomy

ossify

the harden, to turn into bone

masochist

someone who enjoys being in pain

maverick

a pariah, an outcast, a foreigner

epochal

momentous, highly significant

vernacular

colloquial, or the specialized language of a profession (jargon)