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Vocab Unit 11 Flashcards

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Lucid

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Having a clear mind; transparently clear; easily understandable; transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity; capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consist at manner

Comprehensible

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Loquacious

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Full of trivial conversation

Talkative

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Lugubrious

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Excessively mournful

Dismal

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Magnanimous

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Generous and understanding and tolerant; noble and generous in spirit

Benevolent

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Maladroit

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Clumsy; lacking dexterity or physical coordination

Blundering

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Malleable

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Capable of being shaped or bended

Impressionable

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Maxim

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A general truth or proverbial statement

Dictum

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Mellifluous

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Pleasing to the ear; flowing in nature

Euphonic

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Mendacious

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Lying or deceitful demeanor

Fraudulent

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Mendicant

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A beggar

Panhandler

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Mercurial

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Liable to sudden, unpredictable change

Temperamental

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Mettle

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The courage to carry on

Dauntlessness

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Mosanthrope

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A person who hates or distrusts human kind

Loner

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Miscreant

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A person without moral scruples

Immoral

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Mitigate

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Make less severe or harsh; to lessen the seriousness or extent of

Lighten

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Mobile

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Capable of changing quickly for one state or condition to another, moving or capable of moving

Adaptable

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Mollify

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Make less rigid or softer, make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something

Soothe

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Morbid

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Suggesting an unhealthy mental state, caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; suggesting the horror of death and decay

Sickly

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Motley

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(Verb) make something more diverse and varied
(Adj) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds

Assorted

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Mundane

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Ordinary, often boring

Earthly

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