Vocabulary Flashcards

(58 cards)

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Berate

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Scold or Criticize

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Emulate

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Match or Surpass

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Expound

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Explain

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Flippant

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Not showing a serious attitude

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Gregarious

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outgoing or social

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Hubris

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Excessive Pride

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Imperious

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Assuming power without justification

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Lexicon

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The vocabulary of a person

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Loquacious

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Talkative

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Malfeasance

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Wrongdoing

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Misnomer

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Wrong or inaccurate name in the designation

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Nomenclature

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the choosing of names for things

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Obfuscate

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To confuse

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Ostracize

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Exclude from a society or group

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Paramount

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More important than anything else

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Rancor

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Bitterness or resentfulness

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Refute

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Prove to be wrong or false

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Repose

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A state of rest

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Sanctimonious

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Making a show of being morally superior

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Sedition

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Conduct or speech inciting people to rebel

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Terse

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Sparing in use of words

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Trounce

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Defeat heavily in a contest

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Tutelage

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Authority over someone or something

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Untoward

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Vehemently
Showing strong feelings
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Vilify
Write or speak in an abusively disparaging way
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Wield
Hold and use typically a weapon or tool
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Winsome
Attractive appearance or character
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Xenophobe
fear or dislike for people of different countries
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Zephyr
Soft gentle breeze
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Ameliorate
To make or grow better
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Caveat
A warning or caution
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Disingenuous
Not straightforward or candid
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E.g
"For Example"
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Egalitarian
favoring social equality
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Ephemeral
Short-lived
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Equivocate
to be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
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Ethereal
Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality
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Finite
Having Bounds
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Hyperbole
Extravagant Exaggeration
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I.e
"that is"
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Inane
without contents, empty
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Milieu
Environment ; Setting
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NB
" Note well"
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Pejorative
disparaging, belittling
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Pernicious
Deadly
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Proclivity
A natural inclination; predisposition
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Renege
to go back on a promise or commitment
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Requisite
Necessary ; indispensable
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Salient
Noticeable; also projecting; also leaping
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Sojourn
A temporary stay
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Succinct
Brief, concise
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Superfluous
More than is wanted or is sufficient
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Syntax
the study of rules whereby words or other elements of sentences
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ubiquitous
Being everywhere
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Unilateral
Having only one side
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Verve
energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas
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Vociferous
Making a loud outcry