Vocabular Part 4 Flashcards by Rania Sibaouih

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Dissonance

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Lack of agreement / harmony

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Dogmatic

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stubbornly opinionated, inflexible

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Drone

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A continuous humming sound, to talk on and on

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Dubious

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Doubtful, questionable

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eccentric

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odd or out of the ordinary, quirky

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Elucidate

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to explain; make clear

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Enigma

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a mystery, hard to understand or explain

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Euphonious

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Melodious, pleasant sounding

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Expedient

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Advantageous / covenant

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Expedite

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To quicken or accelerate

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Extol

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To praise

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Fastidious

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Meticulous, difficult to please

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Flagrant

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Glaringly wrong, obviously faulty

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Futile

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Unsuccessful, pointless

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Guile

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Cunning, deceitfulness

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Gullible

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Overly trusting

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Heretic

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Someone who rejects accepted ideas, non-believer

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Immutable

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Unchanging, permanent

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Incessant

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Non-stop

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Indifferent

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Having no preference, unconcerned

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Indolence

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Laziness; apathy

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Innocuous

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Harmless; Insignificant

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Innovate

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to transform or modernize

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Insipid

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Bland; boring

Jubilation

Joy; exultation

Laud

to praise

Lobbyist

Person who seeks to influence politics

Magnanimous

Generous; noble

Mercurial

rapidly changing; temperamental

Novel

New; intresting

Nascent

just beginning; emerging

Obscure

to conceal or complicate

Obfuscate

to render unintelligible or confusing

Parsimony

Stinginess

Paucity

Scarcity

Pedestrian

Commonplace; ordinary

Perfunctory

Careless; showing little effort

Peripheral

off to the side; unimportant

Petulant

rude; irritable

Philanthropist

Someone who benefits mankind