Week 3 vocab Flashcards
(59 cards)
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Truculent
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combative
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Predilection
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fondness, bias towards
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Preclude
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prevent something
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Pervasive
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prevalent, spreading quickly & in great number
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Perfunctory
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done with effort
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Panacea
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perfect care for something
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Ostentatious
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showy, pretentious, designed to impress
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Obeisance
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reverence / respect
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Mawkish
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overly sentimental in a way that seems insincere
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Limpid
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easily to understand
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Fractious
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irritable; unruly
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droll
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humorous
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clandestine
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secretive
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churlish
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rude
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boisterous
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lively
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abhor
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loathe
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tout
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praise
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supersede
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replace
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stoic
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showing no emotion
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sumnolent
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sleepy
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salutary
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beneficial in health
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provincial
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not sophisticated
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Portend
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indicate unpleasant will happen
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myopic
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short sighted, narrow, lacking creativity
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Hamper
hinder
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Furtive
pretend
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Feign
pretend
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Exculpate
clear from blame, absolve
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Esoteric
difficult to understand
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Eschew
avoid
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Antithesis
contrast
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Acumen
good judgment
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Trifling
lacking importance
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Repudiate
reject
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Irascible
easily angered
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Felicitous
well suited
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brook
tolerate annoyance
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Sanguine
optimistic
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Sagacious
wise
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Perfidy
betrayal
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Obviate
bypass potential problem
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Indiscriminate
lacking judgment
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Conjectural
guess with limited data
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Tendentious
biased provocative view
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Sedulous
details
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Platitude
banal remark
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Intransigent
stubborn
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Dearth
lack
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Arbitrary
by chance not reason
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Pertinacious
stubbornly holding onto a belief
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Empirical
based on observation or experience
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Probity
strong ethical standards
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Specious
reasonable but actually wrong
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Spurious
bogus
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Admonish
scold
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irresolute
uncertain
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Impertinent
inappropriate
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Imperious
arrogent
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