Word List 7 Flashcards

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Append

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Attach

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Appellation

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Name, title

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Bluster

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Blow in heavy gusts
Threaten emptily
Bully

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Bode

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Foreshadow

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Bogus

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Counterfeit

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Bohemian

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Unconventional in a artistic way.

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Boisterous

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Violent, rough, noisy

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Bolster

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Support reinforce

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Bolt

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Door bar, fastening pin or screw, length of fabric

Dash or drift off, fasten a door, gobble.

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Bombardment

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Attack with Missiles

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Bombastic

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Pompous

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Booming

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Deep and resonant, flourishing, thriving

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Boon

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Blessing, benefit

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Boorish

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Rude, insensitive

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Boundless

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Unlimited

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Bourgeois

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Middle class, selfishly materialistic, dully conventional

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Bovine

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Cow like, placid and dull.

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Bowdlerise

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Remove material that is considered inappropriate or offensive.

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Boycott

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Refrain from buying or using

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Braggart

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Boaster

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Brandish

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Wave around, flourish

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Bravado

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Swagger

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Brawn

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Muscular strength

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Brazen

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Insolent

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Breach
Breaking of contract or duty
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Breadth
Width, extent
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Brevity
Conciseness
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Bristling
Rising like bristles or showing irritation
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Brittle
Easily broken, difficult
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Broach
Open up , introduce
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Brochure
Pamphlet
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Browbeat
Bully, intimidate
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Browse
Graze, skim or glance at casually
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Brunt
Main impact or shock
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Brusque
Blunt, abrupt
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Buccaneer
Pirate
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Bucolic
Pastoral, rustic
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Buffet | Noun
Table with food set out for people to serve themselves.
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Buffet | Verb
Slap, batter, knock about
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Buffoonery
Clowning
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Bulwark
Earthwork or other strong defence, person who defends.
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Bumptious
Self- assertive
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Bungle
Mismanage, blunder
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Buoyant
Able to float, cheerful and optimistic
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Bureaucracy
Over regulated administrative system marked by red tape.
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Burgeon
Grow forth, send out buds
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Burlesque
Give and imitation that ridicules
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Burly
Husky, muscular
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Burnish
Make shiny by rubbing, polish
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Bustle
Move about energetically, teem
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Buttress
Support, prop up
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Buxom
Plump, full- blossomed.
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Cabal
Small group of people secretly united to promote their own interests.
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Cache
Hiding place
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Cacophonous
Discordant, inharmonious
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Cadaver
Corpse
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Cadence
Rhythmic rise and fall of words and sound)
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Cajole
Coax, wheedle
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Calamity
Disaster, misery
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Calculated
Deliberately planned, likely
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Caldron
Large kettle
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Caliber
Ability, quality
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Calligraphy
Beautiful writing, excellent penmanship
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Callous
Hardening, unfeeling
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Callow
Youthful, immature, inexperienced
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Calorific
Heat - producing
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Calumny
Malicious misrepresentation, slander
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Camaraderie
Good fellowship
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Cameo
Shell or jewel carved in relief, stars special appearance in minor role in a film.
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Camouflage
Disguise, conceal
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Candor
Frankness, open honesty
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Canine
Related to dogs.
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Canny
Shrewd, thrifty.
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Cant
Insincere expressions of piety, jargon of thieves.
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Cantankerous
Ill humoured, irritable.
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Canter
Slow gallop