Vocabulary List #4 Flashcards
(20 cards)
1
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Aesthetic
A
Artistic, dealing with or capable of appreciation
2
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Apocryphal
A
Untrue, made up, questionable
3
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Ardent
A
Intense, passionate, zealous
4
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Austere
A
Severely simple, undecorated stern
5
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Buttress
A
Support, prop up, enforce
6
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Colloquial
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Pertaining to conversational or common speech
7
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Condone
A
overlook, give unspoken approval, excuse
8
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Delineate
A
Portray depict, sketch
9
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Efface
A
Rub out
10
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Exemplify
A
Serve as an example of, embody
11
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Levity
A
Lack of seriousness, lightness
12
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Lurid
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Wild, sensational, graphic, gruesome
13
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Nefarious
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Very wicked
14
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Penury
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Severe poverty, stinginess
15
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Piety
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Religious devotion, godliness
16
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Prattle
A
Babble
17
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Quandary
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Dillema
18
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Rescind
A
Cancel
19
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Soporific
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Causing or marked by sleep
20
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Sycophant
A
Servile flatterer, bootlicker, suck up
