Vocab from tests Flashcards
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Invulnerable
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Immune to attack, damage, pain.
Not open to denial or disproof.
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Deft
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Skillful, clever, dexterous
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Inscrutable
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Impossible to investigate, analyze, understand, penetrate, see through.
(Figuratively & literally/physically)
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Venal
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Easily bribed or corrupted
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Impudent
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Impertinent, rude
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Nettle
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To annoy or provoke
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Exposition
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Explanation
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Objurgate
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To berate or scold harshly
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Prescient
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Having foresight, seeing events coming before they occur
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Nascent
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Newly in existence
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Happenstance
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A chance happening or event
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Beholden
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Indebted, obligated
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Disinterested
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Unbiased, indifferent
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Omniscience
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Infinite knowledge, awareness, understanding
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Partisanship
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Membership, loyalty, or support of a group or cause
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Pan
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To criticize harshly
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Interminable
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Unending, limitless, annoyingly persisting
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Galvanize
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To stimulate into activity
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Beguile
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To mislead, trick. To pass (time) pleasantly
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Prickly
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Full of difficulties.
Bad tempered, irritable.
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Solicitous
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Anxious or concerned.
Eager (to do something).
Careful or particular.
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Phlegmatic
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Hard to excite.
Not showing emotion.
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Portentous
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Momentous.
Ominously significant or indicative.
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Banal
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Overused, trite, trivial
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Posturing
To adopt an attitude or official stance on an issue
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Expatiate
To discuss or write about at great length.
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Boon
A blessing to be grateful for.
| A favor being sought.
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Forestall
To deal with ahead of time, to prevent.
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Apologist
A person offering a defense by argument.
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Natty
Neat and dapper
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Epigram
Witty statement.
| Short, satirical, witty poem.
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Expostulation
Earnest protest, reasoning
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Hummock
Small hill
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Perspicacious
Discerning, insightful
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Sinecure
Job that requires little work or responsibility
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Labile
Likely to change
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Obloquy
Harsh criticism, blame.
| Disgrace after public denunciation.
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Belie
Contradict, refute.
Misrepresent.
Act inappropriately.
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Cupidity
Excessive desire, greed
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Gallimaufry
A confused mess
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Cynosure
Attracts attention.
| Giving direction, guidance.
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Apprise
To inform, give notice
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Insidious
Deceitful, sneaky.
| Seemingly harmless but actually with grave effect.
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Foil
Noun: opposite.
Verb: prevent (someone's) success.
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Staid
Boring, dull
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Garrulous
Full of small- talk, trivial conversation
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Forlorn
Showing hopelessness
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Bumbling
Lacking physical skill
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Derision
Ridicule, mockery, contempt
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Philistine
Treats arts with contempt/ mockingly
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Prevaricate
To deviate/avoid the truth.
| To be intentionally vague.
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Pastoral
Relating to rural life
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Intimation
Suggestion/ vague understanding
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Impasse
dilemma
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Purport
meaning/connotation
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Imperilment
danger
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Craven
cowardly, recreant
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Reprobate
shameless/corrupt
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Covetous
greedy
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Lambast
verbally abuse/ attack
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Incisive
perceptive
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Veritable
genuine, true
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Ineffable
indescribable
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Consummate
ultimate, best
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Cavalier
arrogant
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Imperious
bossy/arrogant
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Magisterial
superior or authoritative
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Stringent
strict
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Retiring
quiet, shy
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Salutary
helpful
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Prurient
perverted
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Salubrious
wholesome, respectable
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Macabre
gruesome
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Recalcitrant
stubborn
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Meager
inadequate
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Despondent
sad
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Lugubrious
excessively sad/mournful
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Abject
hopeless, downtrodden
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Disconsolate
sad
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Lachrymose
tearful
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Subservient
submissive
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Obsequious
submissive
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Jocundity
joyfulness
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Steadfast
committed
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Perverse
uncooperative
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Pundit
expert
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Stalwart
strong, sturdy
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Insouciant
nonchalant, carefree
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Lackadaisical
lazy, laid-back
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*Feckless
lazy, irresponsible, incompetent
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Indolence
laziness
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Middling
adequate
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Dearth
lack
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Acquittal
exonerate
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Incongruous
out of place
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Parochial
narrow-minded
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Insular
isolated, narrow-minded
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Caginess
caution, evasiveness
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Amalgamate
merge
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Puerile
immature
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Ersatz
synthetic, artificial
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Garish
excessive ornamentation, gaudy
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Robustious
boisterous
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Resplendent
excellent
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Elucidation
explanation
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Intelligible
understandable, clear
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Obfuscation
confusion
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Imbroglio
confusion/ predicament
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Bemuse
to confuse
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Malapropism
absurd misuse of words
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Resurgence
renewal
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Prodigious
great in size
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Tepid
lacking enthusiasm
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Flippant
lacking respect or seriousness
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*Sententious
Self-righteous, moralizing others pompously.
| Containing many pithy aphorisms.
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*Undermine
To destroy, attack, or weaken something by underhand means/ by eroding the foundation.
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*Propitiate
To appease, placate.
| To make favorably inclined.
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*Tendentious
Having a certain bias or tendency, especially a controversial bias.
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*Limpid
Clear, calm
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*Betray
To reveal, often a secret one would prefer to conceal.
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*Punctilious
Meticulous
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*Desultory
Aimless, haphazard, wandering
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*Pecuniary
Relating to money
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*Inculcate
To teach through repetition
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*Ascetic
Self denying
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*Lugubrious
Excessively sad/mournful
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*Machination
Scheming, plotting
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*Sedition
Arousing resistance/rebellion
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Ostentatious
pretentious, show-offy
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Grandiloquence
pretentious, flowery speech
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Aplomb
self-assurance
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Furtive
secret
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Stentorian
loud
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Sonorous
loud, resounding
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Felicitous
expressed appropriately & pleasingly
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Imperturbation
calmness
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Ochlocracy
mob rule
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Scintillation
sparkly
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Quittance
discharge from debt
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Censure
official reprimand
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Irascible
easily angered
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Innocuous
harmless
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Eclipse
to exceed
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Commensurate
about the same
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Elucidate
explain
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Petulant
cranky
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Disquietude
anxiety
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Toil
difficult work
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Destitution
poverty
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Intemperate
excessive
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Consummate
ideal
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Affable
sociable
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Probity
integrity
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Unctuous
oily or sleazy
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Impinge
impose
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Abnegate
renounce
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Excogitate
consider thoughtfully
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Quotidian
commonplace
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*Prosaic
common, dull
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Insipid
bland, dull
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Recondite
obscure, esoteric
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Abstruse
obscure
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Iconoclast
nonconformist
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Protracted
drawn out
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Pellucid
clear
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Licentious
immoral
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Prolific
fruitful
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Fecundity
fruitful
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Chicanery
deception
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Stratagem
trick
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Complacency
simple satisfaction
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Conflation
mixing cultures
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Poise
confidence
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Calumny
slander
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Ebullient
cheerful
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Diffidence
timidity
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Approbation
approval
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Trepidation
apprehension
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Timorous
fearful
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Catalyst
means
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*Paucity
lack
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Surfeit
surplus
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Apex
peak
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Indemnify
assure
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Liquidate
pay a debt, eliminate
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Underwrite
guarantee
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Cipher
code/ nothing
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Memorandum
message
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Contrite
remorseful
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Contrition
remorse, apology
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Delude
deceive
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Gull
cheat
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Implicate
involve
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Chary
cautious
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Entrenched
deep rooted
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Pervasive
omnipresent
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Hermetic
enclosed
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Sardonic
verbally abusive
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Rarefied
obscure
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Nebulous
vague
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Oblique
implicit, indirect
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Collude
conspire, scheme
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Machinate
conspire, plot
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Prattle
chatter
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Arrant
extreme
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Ancillary
supplementary
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Untenable
unsound, unsustainable
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Usury
exploitation
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Mendacity
dishonesty
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Coda
conclusion
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Opprobrium
disgrace
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Deference
respect, admiration
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Complaisant
eager to please, agreeable
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Gentrify
start over
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Prodigal
wasteful
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Droll
amusing
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Genteel
well-mannered
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Enigma
mystery, puzzle
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Candor
honesty, straightforwardness
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Deportment
demeanor, carriage
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Dogma
beliefs
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Vehemence
intensity, forcefulness
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Debonair
suave, sophisticated
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Embroiled
in a fight/ predicament
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Imbroglio
in a fight/ predicament
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Idiosyncrasy
peculiarity, quirk
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Anachronistic
Out of place in time
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To foreground
To emphasize
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Caprice
Sudden, unpredictable change.
| A tendency to change one's mind without motive.
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Capricious
Erratic, tending to make unpredictable changes.
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Demur
Objection.
| To object.
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Sartorial
Relating to clothing
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Frivolous
Carefree, not serious
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Panache
a grand or flamboyant manner
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Quixotic
Visionary, Impractical, Unpredictable, Chivalrous.
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Brandish
To flaunt or wave around
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Flout
To treat with disdain
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Thoroughgoing
Done thoroughly.
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Innocuous
Harmless
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Remedial
Correcting or fixing something
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Lurid
Gruesome, glaringly vivid
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Deferential
Respectful
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*Probity
Honesty
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Profligate
Shamelessly immoral, extravagant
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Fractious
Unruly, irritable
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Immutable
Unchangeable
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Pedantic
Showing off knowledge.
| Overly concerned with details/rules.
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Torpid/ Torpor
Lacking energy
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Reprise
Repeat
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*Sardonic
Cynical, mocking
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Subterfuge
Evade a consequence
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Axiom
Self-evident truth, universally accepted rule
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Erudite
Knowledgeable, wise
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Vicissitude
Change
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Glib
Unconstrained
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Gratuitous
Done without reason/ justification
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Intractable
Not easily controlled
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Virulent
Harmful, malicious
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Confound
Confuse
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Recapitulate
Summarize and repeat main points
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Repudiate
Reject
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Facetious
Joking
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Patent
Obvious
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Arcane
obscure, esoteric
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Laudable
praiseworthy
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Painstaking
careful and diligent
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Munificent
very generous
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Fastidious
extremely particular, meticulous, hard to please
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Baseness
immorality
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Doctrinaire
impractical theorist
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Eclectic
selecting from different sources
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Normative
pertaining to a norm/standard
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Pedestrian
commonplace, dull
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Jettison
throw away
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Distill
purify, refine
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Modish
stylish
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Pernicious
harmful
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Injudicious
unwise, imprudent
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Florid
flowery, showy
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Inveigling
to persuade, flatter someone into doing something
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Recrudescence
revival
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Transitory
temporary
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Precarious
uncertain, unstable, risky
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Forgo
give up
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Shirk
evade
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Politic
shrewd, tactful
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Capitulate
surrender under agreed conditions
