Vocab Words Flashcards
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Abstract
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Not applied to actual objects
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Acquired
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Developed or learned; not naturally occurring
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Aesthetic
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Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
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Affable
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Easygoing; friendly
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Alienate
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Remove or disassociate from ( friends, family, or homeland)
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Alleviate
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To ease a pain or burden
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Alliance
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A union of two or more groups
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Ambiguous
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Open to more than one interpretation
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Ambivalent
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Simultaneously feeling opposite things; uncertain
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Amenable
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Responsive; agreeable
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Ample
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Describing a large amount of something
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Anthology
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A collection of literary pieces
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Apathetic
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Feeling or showing little emotion
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Apparatus
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Equipment; a group of machines
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Apprehension
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Anxiety or fear about the future
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Arbiter
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A judge who decides a disputed issue
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Arbitrary
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Determined by impulse rather than reason
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Archaic
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Characteristic of an earlier period; old fashioned
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Arid
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Describing a dry, rainless climate
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Assertion
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A declaration or statement
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Assiduous
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Hardworking
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Assimilation
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To absorb; to make similar
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Astute
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Shrewd; clever
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Asylum
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A place of retreat or security
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Auspicious
Favorable; promising
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Austere
Without decoration; strict
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Benevolent
Well meaning; generous; charitable
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Benign
Kind and gentle
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Biased
Prejudiced
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Brittle
Easily broken when subjected to pressure
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Brusque
Rudely abrupt
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Camaraderie
Good will between friends
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Camouflage
To hide by blending with surroundings
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Candor
Sincerity; openness
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Capricious
Impulsive and unpredictable
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Cartographer
One who designed or makes maps
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Catalog
(V.) to make an itemized list of
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caustic
Bitingly sarcastic or witty
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Clandestine
Secretive
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Clarity
Clearness in thought or expression
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cogent
Convincing; reasonable
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Coherent
Logically connected
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Cohesive
Condition of sticking together
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Compelling
Forceful; urgently demanding attention
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Comprehensive
Large in scope or content
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Conception
The ability to form or understand an idea
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Condemn
To express strong disapproval of; denounce
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Condescending
Treating people as weak or inferior
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Conflagration
A widespread fire
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Consensus
General agreement
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Contemporary
Current, modern; from the same time
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Contemptuous
Feeling hatred; scornful
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Context
Circumstances of a situation; environment
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Conviction
A fixed or strong belief
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Convoluted
Intricate; complex
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Copious
Plentiful; having a large quantity
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Cordial
Friendly; sincere
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Coup
A brilliantly executed plan
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Cryptic
Difficult to comprehend
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Decorous
Proper; marked by good taste
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Deleterious
Having a harmful effect; injurious
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Derived
Copied or adapted from a source
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Despotic
Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
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Dictatorial
Domineering; oppressively overbearing
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Didactic
Intended to instruct
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Dilatory
Habitually late
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Dilettante
One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
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Diligent
Marked by painstaking effort; hardworking
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Discourse
Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
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Discredit
To cause to be doubted
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Disdain
(n.) contempt, scorn (v.) to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
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Disingenuous
Not straightforward; crafty
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Disparage
To speak of in a slighting way or negativity; to belittle
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Disparity
Inequality in age, rank or degree; difference
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Dogged
Stubbornly persevering
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Dogmatic
Stubbornly adhering to insufficiency proved beliefs
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Dubious
Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
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Ebullience
Intense enthusiasm
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Eclectic
made up of a variety of sources or styles
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Effusive
Emotionally unrestrained; gushy
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Egregious
Conspicuously bad or offensive
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Eloquence
The ability to speak vividly or persuasively
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Elusive
Difficult to capture
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Embellish
To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
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Emigrate
To leave one country and settle of another
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Emollient
(adj.) softening and soothing (n.) Something that softens or soothes
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Emphasize
To give special attention to something, to stress
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Endure
To put up with, to survive a hardship
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Enlightening
Information; contributing to one’s awareness
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Enmity
Mutual hatred or ill-will
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Equanimity
The quality of being calm and even tempered; composure
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Equivocate
To avoid making a definite statement
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Excerpt
A selected part of passage or scene
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Exculpate
To free from guilt or blame
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Exemplary
Commendable; worthy of imitation
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Fabricated
Made; concocted in order to deceive
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Facetious
Playfully humorous
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Facile
Done or achieved with little effort; easy
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Fastidious
Possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please
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Feral
Savage; untamed
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Flagrant
Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
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Florid
Describing flowery or elaborate speech
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Fluid
Easily flowing
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Fractious
Quarrelsome; unruly
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Frank
Open and sincere in expression; straightforward
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Frenetic
Wildly excited or active
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Futile
Having no useful purpose; pointless
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Genre
Describing a category of artistic endeavor
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Gratuitous
Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
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Hackneyed
Worn out through overuse; trite
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Harbinger
Something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
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Haughty
Arrogant; vainly proud
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Heinous
Hatefully evil; abominal
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Heirarchy
A group organized by rank
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Hypocrisy
The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
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Idealize
To consider perfect
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Impartial
Not in favor of one side of the other, unbiased
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Impede
To slow the progress of
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Imperious
Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
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Impinge
Hinder; interfere with
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Implication
The act of hinting or suggesting
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Impression
A feeling or understanding resulting from experience
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Inconsequential
Unimportant
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Incontrovertible
Indisputable; not open to question
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Incorrigible
Unable to be reformed
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Incumbent
Imposed as a duty; obligatory
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Indifferent
Not caring one way or the other
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Indolent
Lazy
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Inevitable
Certain to happen; unavoidable
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Ingrate
An ungrateful person
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Inherent
Inborn; built-in
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Innate
Possessed at birth; inborn
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Innovative
Introducing something new
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Insipid
Uninteresting; unchallenging
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Insolent
Insulting in manner or speech
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Integrity
Trustworthiness; completeness
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Intrepid
Courageous; fearless
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Intuition
The power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight
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Inveterate
Long established; deep rooted; habitual
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Jurisprudence
The philosophy of science or law
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Lament
Express grief for; mourn
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Laudatory
Giving praise
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Listless
Lacking energy
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Lucid
Easily understand; clear
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Malfeasance
Misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official
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Malice
Extreme ill will or spite
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Malleable
easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
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Maverick
One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
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Medieval
Referring to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned
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Mediocrity
The state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality
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Medley
An assortment or a mixture, especially of musical pieces
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Melancholy
Sadness; depression
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Meticulous
Extremely careful and precise
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Misconception
An incorrect understanding or interpretation
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Modest
Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
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Mollify
To calm or soothe
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Mundane
Commonplace; ordinary
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Mural
A large painting applied to a wall or ceiling surface
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Naïve
Lacking sophistication
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Narrative
(adj.) characterized by the telling of a story (n.) a story
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Nascent
Coming into existence; emerging
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Nocturnal
Of or occurring in the night
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Notorious
Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
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Novel
Strikingly new or unusual
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Novice
A beginner
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Obdurate
Stubborn; inflexible
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Objectivity
Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
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Obscure
(adj.) relatively unknown (v.) to conceal or make indistinct
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Obsolete
No longer in use; old fashioned
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Obstinate
Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or course of action
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Ominous
Menacing; threatening
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Omnipotent
All powerful
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Opulent
Exhibiting a display of great wealth
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Ornate
Elaborately decorated
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Ostentatious
Showy, describing a showy or pretentious display
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Paradigm
An example or model
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Paramount
Of chief concern or importance
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Parody
An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for a comic effect
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Patronizing
Treating In a condocending manner
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Pejorative
Describing words or phrases the belittle to speak negatively of someone
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Penitent
Expressing remorse for one’s misdeeds
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Perception
Awareness; insight
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Permeated
Spread or flowing throughout
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Perspective
Point of view
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Pervasive
Dispersed throughout
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Phenomenon
An unusual, observable event
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Plagiarism
The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one’s own
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Plausible
Seeming valid or acceptable; credible
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Poignant
Profoundly moving; touching
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Ponderous
Extremely dull
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Pragmatic
Practical
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Premonition
A feeling about the future
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Prodigious
Enormous
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Profound
Having great depth or seriousness
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Proliferate
To grow or increase rapidly
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Propriety
Appropriateness of behavior
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Prosaic
Unimaginative; dull
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Proximity
Closeness
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Prudent
Exercising good judgment or common sense
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Pugnacious
Combative; belligerent
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Pundit
An authority who expresses his/her opinions
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Putrid
Rotten
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Quandary
A state of uncertainty or perplexity
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Rancorous
Hateful; marked by deep seeded ill will
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Rational
Logical; motivated by reason other than feeling
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Realism
Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy
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Reclamation
The act of making something useful again
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Replete
Abundantly supplied; filled to capacity
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Reprehensible
Worthy of blame
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Rhetoric
The art of using language effectively and persuasively
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Ruse
A crafty trick
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Sanction
(N.) an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country (v.) to give official au to authorization or approval
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Sedentary
Not migratory; settled
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Serene
Calm
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Servile
Submissive; like a servant
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Slander
False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
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Solvent
Able to pay one’s debts
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Sonorous
Producing a deep or full sound
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Spontaneous
Unplanned; naturally occurring
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Spurious
Not genuine; false; counterfeit
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Staid
Unemotional; serious
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Stoic
Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive
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Stratagem
A clever trick used to decisive or outwit
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Subdue
To restrain; to hold back
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Substantiated
Supported with proof or evidence; verified
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Superficial
Concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow
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Superfluous
Extra; unnecessary
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Suppressed
Subdued; kept from being circulated
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Surreptitious
Done by secretive means
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Tenacity
Persistence
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Tenuous
Having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure; weak
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Theoretical
Lacking application or practical application
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Timorous
Timid; fearful about the future
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Torpor
Laziness; inactivity; dullness
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Toxic
Poisonous
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Transient
Passing away with time; passing from one place to another
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Transitory
Short lived or temporary
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Trepidation
Uncertainty; apprehension
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Trivial
Of little importance or significance
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Truncated
Shortened; cut off
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Venerated
Highly respected
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Vilify
To make vicious statements about
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Vindicated
Freed from blame
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Virtuoso
A tremendously skilled artist
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Vitality
Energy; power to survive
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Vocation
An occupation of profession
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Wary
On guard; watchful
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Whimsical
Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
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Wily
Cunning
