1. Suitable if your needs 2. Capable of cross fertilization/grafting (plants)

Vocab Flashcards by Devvon Dettra

Assiduous

Methodical, precise, careful

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Inimical

Not friendly

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Inimitable

Matchless, very unique

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Buttress

Reinforce or support

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Congenial

Suitable if your needs

2. Capable of cross fertilization/grafting (plants)

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Avuncular

Being or relating to an uncle

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Palpable

Capable of being touched, felt and Therefore perceived

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Oracular

Giving off an Oracle vibe

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Odious

Hateful

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Voluble

Speaking at great length or a great deal

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Belie

Contradict

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Altruistic

Unselfish

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Debutante

Young woman making her entsncf into society

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Hydroponic

Relating to agriculture

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Eclectic

Assorted

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Ebullient

Joyously unrestrained

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Adulterate

Make impure, falsify and corrupt

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Latent

Capable of becoming active, though currently not.

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Egalitarian

Someone who believes in social equality for all

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Bilk

To obtain or maintain money through deceit

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Indigence

Poverty

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Wizened

Shriveled or wrinkled with age

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Tangential

Peripheral, barely touching or relating to

Relating to a tangent

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Jettison

To eject, throw or drop from a vessel

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Tacit

Unspoken, or without need to be spoken

Taciturn

Quiet and restrained

Proliferate

Increase rapidly in number. Multiply

Chicanery

Using the sea to accomplish a goal. Typically tied to immoral approaches

Winsome

To be attractive or appealing in appearance or character. Cute captivating organized engaging

Imperturbable

Not easily excited or upset.

Devolve

Return to origin Get worse instead of better

Iconoclastic

Breaking established rules, beliefs or religious icons

Precipitate

Bring on or cause to happen

Discursive

Tending to depart from the main point Proceeding to a conclusion through logical proof not intuition

Frugality

Prudence in avoiding waste

Gregarious

Seeking and enjoying the company of others

Contention

In competition

Arduous

Taxing to the point of exhaustion.

Inherent

Natural and immovable

Irresolute

Uncertain how to proceed

Piety

Reverence to a god

Reverence

Awe towards what’s considered a god-like figure

Impugn

Call into question or attack as wrong

Abnegation

When you purposely deny yourself something especially in providing for the needs of others

Surfeit or surfeited

Indulge to gluttony To eat to over-fullness

Lowest point

Nadir

Assuage

Make an unpleasant feeling less intense

Callow

Young and inexperienced

Moribund

1. (of a person) at the point of death. | 2. (of a thing) in terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigor

Blade

Unconcerned, uninterested

Ennui

Boredom typically from over exposure

Pusillanimous

Cowardly

Adroit

Clever; resourceful

Bellicose

Quarrelsome

Dilatory

Causing delay

Fecund

Prolific, inventive

Heuristic

Learning through trial and error

Insolent

Impudent, contemptuous

Inveterate

Habitual

Loquacious

Talkative

Noxious

Harmful, corrupting

Pernicious

Injurious, deadly

Pervasive

Wide spread

Petulant

Rude, I’ll humored

Salubrious

Healthful

Tremulous

Timid, shy, nervous, trembling

Trenchant

Sharp, distinctive, penetrating

Turgid

Swollen and pompous

Ubiquitous

Wide-spread, pervasive

Wheedling

Flattering

Zealot

Devoted, eager

Withering

Devastating

Veracious

Ravenous, insatiable

Maudlin

Overly emotional

Histrionic

Relating to acting or stage performance

Rapacious

Greedy

Nebulous

Cloudy

Diaphanous

Thin and transparent

Umbrage

Taking umbrage from something means it is making you angry or you are raking offense to it

Acclimation

Enthusiastic approval

Festoon

Garland of flowers in circular pattern

Supercilious

Extreme egotism

Provenance

Place of origin or earliest known meaning

Hagiography

Writing of the lives of the saints

Rusticated

To leave or be expelled temporarily

Pretense

1. an attempt to make something that is not the case appear true. 2. A false or ambitious claim

Peculation

The wrongful appropriation or embezzlement of shared or public property, usually by a person entrusted with the guardianship of that property.

Dissemble

Conceal ones motives

Mulct

Extract money from by fine or taxation

Insouciant

Showing a general lack of concern

Parsimonious

Stingy or frugal

Entropy

Gradual decline

Corporeal

Relating to the body

Enigma, enigmatic

Something/one that is mysterious, puzzling The act of being mysterious or puzzling

Passé

No longer fashionable, out of date

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