Word List 72 Flashcards by Jennifer Zhang

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Perennial

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Something that is continuing or recurrent

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Reparable

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Capable of being repaired

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Rally

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Call up or summon (forces, vital powers, etc.)

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Unearth

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Dig up

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Retort

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Quick sharp reply

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Agrarian

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Pertaining to land or its cultivation

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Adulation

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Flattery; Admiration

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Codicil

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Supplement to the body of will

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Ethereal

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Light; Heavenly; Unusually refined

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Dissent

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Disagree

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Deliberate

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Consider; Ponder

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Imply

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Suggest a meaning not expressed; Signify

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Saccharine

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Cloyingly sweet

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Haggle

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Argue about prices

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Plagiarism

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Theft of another’s ideas or writings passed off as original

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Cataclysm

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Upheaval; Deluge

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Waft

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Moved gently by winds or waves

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Hypercritical

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Excessively exacting

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Bevy

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Large group or collection, esp. of girls or women

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Wince

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Shrink back; Flinch

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Tawdry

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Cheap and gaudy

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Adherent

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Supporter; Follower

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Foliage

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Masses of leaves

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Scurvy

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Despicable; Contemptible

Novelty

Something new; Newness

Advocate

Urge; Plead for

Illusion

Misleading vision

Pathological

Relating to the study of disease; Diseased or markedly abnormal

Arduous

Hard; Strenuous

Humane

Marked by kindness or consideration

Antiquated

Old-fashioned; Obsolete

Sagacious

Perceptive; Shrewd; Having insight

Seclusion

Isolation; Solitude

Reputable

Respectable

Berserk

Frenzied

Pliant

Flexible; Easily influenced

Sibling

Brother or sister

Undulating

Moving with a wavelike motion

Dissimulate

Pretend; Conceal by feigning

Overwrought

Extremely agitated; Hysterical

Treacly

Sticky sweet; Cloying sentimental

Glacial

Like a glacier; Extremely cold

Bemused

Confused; Lost in thought; Preoccupied

Abrade

Wear away by friction; Scrape; Erode

Stricture

Restriction; Adverse criticism