Word List 4 Flashcards by Ofentse Bosman

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Excerpt

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small selection from a book or document

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Exhumed

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Dug from the grave

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Exigency

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Urgent need

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Expeditiously

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In an efficient way, speedily

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Extempore

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On the spur of the moment

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Fastidious

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Pernickety

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Fatuous

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silly, idiotic

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Fickle

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Changeable

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Flaccid

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Fond of showing off

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Flinch

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To wince, to draw back

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Fortuitous

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Happening by lucky accident or chance

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Founder

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Stumber, fail utterly, to fill with water and sink

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Frantic

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Wildly excited, agitated

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Frenetic

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Frantic, frenzied

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Gab

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Chattering or meaningless talk

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Gad

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A sharp pointed rod

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Gar

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Any slender fish

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Garnish

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To sieze by legal authority

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Gelasin

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A dimple occuring when you smile

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Gerrymander

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To manipulate the boundaries of an electoral constituency to favour a particular party

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Gesticulate

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Make lively gestures, moves hands about

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Gripe

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To grumble or complain

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Guileless

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Sincere, without deception

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Hail

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To aclaim, call out

Halcyon

Ideallicaly happy, peaceful

Harp

To persist or dwell tediously on a subject

Hirci

Armpit hair

Hirsute

Hairy

Hone

To sharpen, improve, perfect

Honorary

One for which no salary is paid

Horde

A large group of people, crowd

Ignominiously

With disgrace, dishonourably

Impeccable

such that no fault could be found

Implore

To ask someone to do or not do something in a very sincere way

Importune

To plead annoyingly

Inception

Beginning

Incessant

Never-stopping in an annoying, unpleasant way

Inclement

Severe, stormy or cold, merciless

Incoherent

Hard to understand

Incorrigible

Incapable of being corrected

Incumbent

Office holder

Indefatigable

Tireless

Indelible

Unable to be forgotten

Indubitably

Without Question or doubt

Infatuation

Romantic attachment, attraction

Ingenuous

Candid, open, without guile

Innocuous

Harmless

Inscrutably

Mysteriously, in an incomprehensible way

Insular

Overly meticulous, sourounded by sea

Intermittently

Every now and then