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Vocabs Day 2 Flashcards

1
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Sullen

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Showing silent anger and unwillingness to be pleasant to people

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2
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Unkempt

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Sloppy;messy;unclean

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3
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Intrinsic

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Relating to the essential nature of a something

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4
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Contentious

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Always ready to argue;quarrelsome

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5
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Regimen

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A set of rules;Usually followed for a therapeutic effect

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6
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Belie

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To picture falsely; to contradict

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7
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Pantomime

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Communication by means of gesture and facial expression

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Countenance

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Appearance;especially the expression of the face;to tolerate

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9
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Ephermal

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Lasting for a short time;fleeting

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10
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Captivate

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To capture the attention of , as by beauty,excellence,etc

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11
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Indolent

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Lazy

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12
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Kindling

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Dry stocks of wood used to start a fire

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13
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Congential

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Present since birth; being an essential characteristic

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14
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Repudiate

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To reject as invalid or untrue

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15
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Municipal

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Relating to local government

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16
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Jurisdiction

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The extent of authority or control;the right and power to interpret and apply the law

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17
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Ruthless

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Having no compassion or pity

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18
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Respite

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Temporary relief

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19
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Painstaking

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Very thorough; careful

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20
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Vernacular

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Informal speech

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21
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Producing a lot

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Prolific

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22
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Large,disastrous fire

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Conflagration

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23
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To climb

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Scale

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24
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Inspiring fear or dread

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Formidable

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25
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Legally obligated;likely (with reference to an unfavorable outcome)

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Liable

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26
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Playfully humorous

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Facetious

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27
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Traceling from place to place,especially for work

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Itinerant

28
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To travel or mograte esp.slowly or with great difficulty

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Trek

29
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Cruel;brutal

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Barbarous

30
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To station or assemble troops or forces in position

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Deploy

31
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Incapable of being expressed

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Ineffable

32
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Unnecessary;extra

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Superfluous

33
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To delight,to enjoy

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Revel

34
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Not decent or proper

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Unseemly

35
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An act of accomplishment showing skill

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Feat

36
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An indefinitely large number

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Myriad

37
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Made thin unnaturally;abnormally thin due tostarvation

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Emaciated

38
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To pretend;to fake

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Feign

39
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Birth;beginning;origin

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Genesis

40
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Talkative

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Voluble

41
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Restricted;limited;narrow;local

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Parochial

42
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To reach the highest point

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Culminate

43
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Having exact limits; final;firm in purpose

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Determinate

44
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Formation of an idea in the mind;the start of pregnancy

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Conception

45
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Laziness

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Sloth

46
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One who is strict in discipline,and enjoys auhority too much

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Martinet

47
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Capable of error

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Faliable

48
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To move carelessly

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Blunder

49
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Noisliy and stubbornly defiant

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Obsteperous

50
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To bend or tun away

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Apt

51
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To make more violent,bitter, or severe

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Excaberate

52
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Worthy of honor ans respect of dignity,age ect.

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Venerable

53
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Some sort of violation;a gap

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Breach

54
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Pitting unnecesary stress on minor or pirely academid knowlwedge

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Pendantic

55
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Animals as a group,esp.of specific region of time

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Fauna

56
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Serious;grave

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Solemn

57
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To weaken

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Undermine

58
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Unclear;vague

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Nebulous

59
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A short saying expressing a general principle

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Maxim

60
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Optimistic;cheerful

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Sanguine

61
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The highest point

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Apex

62
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Seeming to be truthul on the surface but actually false

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Specious

63
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To order wih the force of law; an official order

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Decree

64
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Sad,esp. A lingering or habitual state of mind

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Melancholy

65
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Bold;fearless

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Intrepid

66
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To decline to an inferior state,often in mental or moral quality

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Degenerate

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