Word Groups Flashcards
(36 cards)
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Changing quickly
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Capricious
Mercurial
Volatile
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Bold
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Audacious
Courageous
Dauntless
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Hesitate
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Dither Vacillate Oscillate Waver Teeter
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Act quickly
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Abrupt Impetuous Apace Precipitate Headlong
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Innocent/inexperienced
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Credulous Gullible Ingenuous Naive Novitiate Tyro
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Difficult to understand
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Abstruse Bemusing Esoteric Opaque Recondite Ambiguous Cryptic Inscrutable Paradoxical Turbid Arcane Enigmatic Obscure Perplexing
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Easy to understand
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Articulate Evident Pellucid Cogent Limpid Eloquent Lucid
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Smart/learned
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Astute
Perspicacious
Canny
Erudite
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Criticise/criticism
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Aspersion belittle berate calumny castigate decry defame/defamation denounce deride/derisive diatribe disparage excoriate gainsay harangue impugn inveigh lambaste obloquy objurgate opprobrium pillory rebuke remonstrate reprehend reprove revile tirade vituperate
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Carousel
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Bacchanalian Depraved dissipated Iniquity Libertine libidinous licentious Reprobate ribald Salacious sordid Turpitude
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Truth
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Candour/candid Fealty frankness Indisputable indubitable Legitimate Probity Sincere Veracious verity
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Falsehood
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Apocryphal Canard chicanery Dissemble duplicity Equivocate erroneous ersatz Fallacious feigned Guile Mendacious mendacity Perfidy Prevaricate Specious spurious
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Biting (as in of wit or temperament)
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Acerbic acidulous acrimonious asperity
Caustic
Mordant mordacious
Trenchant
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Praise
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Acclaim accolade aggrandize Encomium eulogise extol Fawn Laud/laudatory Venerate
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Harmful
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Baleful baneful Deleterious Inimical injurious insidious Minatory Perfidious pernicious
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Timid/timidity
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Craven Diffident Pusillanimous Recreant Timorous Trepidation
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Boring
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Banal Fatuous Hackneyed Insipid Mundane Pedestrian Platitude Prosaic Quotidian Trite
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Weaken
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Adulterated Enervate exacerbate Inhibit Obviate Stultify Undermine Vitiate
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Assist
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Abet advocate ancillary Bolster Corroborate countenance Espouse Mainstay munificent Proponent Stalwart sustenance
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Hostile
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Antithetic Churlish Curmudgeon Irascible Malevolent Misanthropic Truculent Vindictive
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Stubborn
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Implacable Inexorable Intractable Intransigent Obdurate Obstinate Recalcitrant Refractory Renitent Untoward Vexing
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Beginning/young
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Burgeoning Callow Engender Inchoate Incipient Nascent
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Generous/kind
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Altruistic Beneficent Clement Largess Magnanimous Munificent Philanthrophic Unstinting
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Greedy
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Avaricious Covetous Mercenary Miserly Penurious Rapacious Venal
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Terse
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Compendious
Curt
Laconic
Pithy
Succinct
Taciturn
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Overblown/wordy
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Bombastic
Circumlocution
Garrulous
Grandiloquent
Loquacious
Periphrastic
Prolix
Rhetoric
Turgid
Verbose
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Dictatorial
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Authoritarian
Despotic
Dogmatic
Hegemonic
Hegemony
Imperious
Peremptory
Tyrannical
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Hatred
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Abhorrence
Anathema
Antagonism
Antipathy
Detestation
Enmity
Loathing
Malice
Odium
Rancor
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Beginner/amateur
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Dilettante
Fledgling
Neophyte
Novitiate
Proselyte
Tyro
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Lazy/sluggish
Indolent Inert Lackadaisical
Languid Lassitude Lethargic
Phlegmatic Quiescent Slothful
Torpid
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Pacify/satisfy
Ameliorate Appease Assuage
Defer Mitigate Mollify
Placate Propitiate Satiate
Slake
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Forgive
Absolve Acquit Exculpate
Exonerate Expiate Palliate
Redress Vindicate
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Poor
Destitute
Ensuring
Impecunious
Indigent
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Favouring/not impartial
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Ardent/ardour
Doctrinaire
Fervid
Partisan
Tendentious
Zealot
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Denying of self
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Abnegate
Abstain
Ascetic
Spartan
Stoic
Temperate
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Walking about
Ambulatory
Itinerant
Meander
Peripatetic
