Vocab - Test 1 Flashcards

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Feigned

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Simulated or pretended

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Fractiousness

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Difficult to control

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Exempt

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Free from obligation or liability

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Bizarre

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Very strange or unusual

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Bantering

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Playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks

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Complacency

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A feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction of oneself

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Intimation

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An indication or hint

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Levity

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Inappropriate humor or frivolity

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Proximity

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Nearby area

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Supercilious

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Behaving or looking like one is superior to others

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Extemporizing

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Compose, perform, or produce something without preparation

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Peremptorily

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Insisting on immediate attention or obedience

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Desolate

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Deserted of people, wasteland

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Contiguous

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Sharing a common border

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Apathetic

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Showing or feeling no interest or concern

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Languid

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Slow and relaxed

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Hauteur

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Haughtiness of manner, disdainful pride

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Incessant

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Continuing without pause or interruption

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Strident

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Loud and harsh

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Oculist

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Ophthmologist

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Indeterminate

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Not exactly known, established

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Prodigality

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Spending money and resources freely and recklessly

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Vehemently

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Showing strong feeling, forceful

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Credulity

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A tendency to believe something as real

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Cynical
Distrustful of human integrity or sincerity
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Ascertain
Find something out for certain
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Convivial
Friendly, lively, enjoyable
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Affectation
Behavior, speech, or writing that is artificial to impress
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Permeate
Spread throughout (something)
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Corpulent
Fat
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Innuendo
An allusive or oblique remark
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Homogeneity
Being homogenous, same kind
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Subterfuges
Deceit used in order to achieve ones goal
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Punctilious
Showing great attention to detail or correct behavior
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Labyrinth
A complicated network of passages
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Disconcerting
Causing one to feel unsettled
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Sinister
Giving the impression that something evil is occurring or will occur
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Abstracted
Showing a lack of concentration on what is happening around one
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Juxtaposition
Two things contracted
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Sporadic
Occurring at irregular intervals
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Luxuriated
Enjoy oneself in a luxurious way
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Abstraction
Dealing with ideas rather than events