Vocabulary Flashcards

(46 cards)

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Receptive to suggestions or criticism?

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Amenable

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Responsible for something legally

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Amenable

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Strikingly unconventional or peculiar as to taste, style, or appearance

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Bizarre

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A defensive wall or fortification; any safeguard or defense

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Bulwark

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To fortify with a bulwark; to protect

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Bulwark

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A small group of highly placed people united for a secret and often sinister purpose; the plots of such a group

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Cabal

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A picture or description in which the characteristic features of the original are exaggerated or distorted so as to produce an absurd effect?

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Caricature

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8
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A complete and often ridiculous failure?

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Fiasco

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9
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Added to for decoration or interest?

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Garnished

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10
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Spoken casually without thought?

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Glib

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Smoothly spoken, often characterized by insincerity?

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Glib

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12
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Cynical from overexposure to something?

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Jaded

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13
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Worn out from use?

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Jaded

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14
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Bravery?

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Prowess

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15
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Superior skill?

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Prowess

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16
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Basic principles first learned about a subject?

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Rudiments

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17
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Characterized by erratic behavior or unpredictability; odd, freakish

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Whimsical

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18
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A step-by-step explanation of something by comparing it with something else?

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Analogy

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Daring; boldness?

20
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Impudence?

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Good manners; politeness?

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Skill in using the hands or body; mental quickness?

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Double-dealing; deceitfulness?

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Something that has immediate advantages?

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A false or misleading idea; a deceptive or unsound argument?
Fallacy
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Excess in eating?
Gluttony
27
Unbecoming or inappropriate frivolity or jocularity; lack of seriousness?
Levity
28
A nobleness of spirit which disdains petty resentment and revenge?
Magnanimity
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Depth of intellect or emotion?
Profundity
30
A natural inclination or tendency?
Propensity
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Any opening in a solid figure?
Aperture
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Great warmth of emotion of desire?
Ardor
33
Skilled trickery; cleverness?
Artifice
34
Openness of mind; impartiality?
Candor
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Frankness of expression; straightforwardness?
Candor
36
The end or resolution of something?
Culmination
37
The climax?
Culmination
38
Courtesy; respect?
Deference
39
Complying to the opinions or desires of others?
Deference
40
Presumptuous, brash behavior, often insulting?
Effrontery
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The face or front of anything; especially, a deceptive false front?
Façade
42
The holding of an office and the administering of its duties; also, the term of an office?
Incumbency
43
An assumption from which a conclusion is gathered?
Premise
44
Government funds given to support a business thought to be in the public interest?
Subsidy
45
Financial aid given by one party to another?
Subsidy
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Decision; an act of conscious choice
Volition