Vocabulary Flashcards
(55 cards)
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Sanctioned
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Approved by authority
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Virulence
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Extreme harmfulness (by a microorganism) Extreme hatred
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Propitious
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Likely to result in success: favorable circumstances
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Portents
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Sign that something is about to happen
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Sybarite
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One who loves luxury
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Litigant
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One involved in a lawsuit
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Bemuse
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To confuse
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Veritable
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Real or genuine
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Quiescent
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Temporary
In a state of inactivity
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Suffuse
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To cover with: to spread
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Querulous
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Always finding fault
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Savant
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A scholar
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Refuse
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garbage
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Overweening
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Arrogant
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Pusillanimous
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Cowardly
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Tortuous
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Winding
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Reprobate
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Evil
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Phlegmatic
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Stoidly calm
Unemotional
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Scintillating
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Brilliantly clever
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Omnipotent
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All powerful
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Impel
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To push something into motion
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Precondition
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To bring into a desired state
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Travesty
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False distorted way
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Inanity
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Lack of substance
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Précis
A summary
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Verisimilitude
Realistic
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Bent
Natural talent
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Gratis
Without charge
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Minatory
Conveying a threat
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Recalcitrant
Obstinacy
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Prevaricate
Evasive way
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Pariah
One who is hated
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Vituperation
Bitter language
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Mellifluous
Flowing sweetly
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Recidivist
One who returns to life as a criminal
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Salient
Important, noteworthy
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Captious
Critically overbearing
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Pugilist
A boxer
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Amenable
Prone to the idea of
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Stultify
To make useless by degrading or to make tired
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Disabuse
To free from error or falsehood
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Tenable
Able to be proved in an argument
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Profligate
Wasteful spending
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Dirge
Sad music or a hymn
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Digest
Previously published information
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Salubrious
Good for the health
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Anodyne
A pain killer
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Epidemiology
Study of disease
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Sanctimonious
False holiness
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Pertinacious
Stubborn in belief
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Unctuous
Insincere
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Antideluvian
Before the bible
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Euphonious
Pleasing to the ear
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Germane
Relevant to the subject at hand
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Perspicuous
Clearly understood
