Vocabulary List Flashcards
(57 cards)
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Impugn
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to challenge or criticize
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Indigenous
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native
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Indefatigable
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Can’t be stopped, dogged, unflagging
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Ineffable
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can’t be spoken
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Reticent
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to be quiet
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Assiduous
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Diligent
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Excoriate
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punish or torture
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fulminate
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Thunder, explode
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Frenetic
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Crazy, unruly
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Apotheosis
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making of a God
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Foment
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To create or generate
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Galvanize
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brought to life or excitement
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Sanguine
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Happy, filled with joy
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Feckless
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INEFFECTIVE
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Inimical
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Harmful
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Irascible
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outburst
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Mollify
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To ease or pacify
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Unremitting
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never giving up
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Perspicacious
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Eloquent or insightful
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Languish
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lose strength
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Ubiquity
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seems to be everywhere
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Virulent
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Deadly, toxic
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Pusillanimous
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cowardly
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Quiescent
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Calm, reserved
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Obsequious
To show reverence
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Eschew
To avoid
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Petulant
Sarcastic or irritable
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Consternation
Confusion or amazement.
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Recondite
To be complicated and difficult to understand
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Eviscerate
to Disembowel or totally destroy
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Venerable
respected or revered
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Sparse
A few, not many
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Paucity
Few, not many
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Iconoclast
Rebel
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Interloper
Invader, outsider
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Strident
Shrill, sarcastic
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Loquacious
Talkative
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Draconian
Harsh, cruel
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Recalcitrant
Stubborn
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Pugnacious
Combative
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Contentious
Combative
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Quixotic
Idealistic but impractical
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Puerile
Childish
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Prurient
based on sexual themes.
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Pillory
condemn harshly
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Myopic
Thinking only of the present needs and ignoring the future
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Misogynist
One who hates women
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Mendacious
Lying, false
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Mercurial
Quickly changing, unpredictable
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Maelstrom
Whirlpool or a crazy mess, confusion.
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Laconic
To the point, succinct, terse.
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Ignominy
Shame
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Hubris
Extreme arrogance
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Ethereal
Light, heavenly, fine.
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Conspicuous
Obvious
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Ebullient
Excited, filled with energy.
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Evanescent
Lasting temporarily
