Words Flashcards
(208 cards)
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Spendthrift
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One who spends money prodigally
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Indict
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To accuse of a crime
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Reprobate
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A person without morals
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Thrifty
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One who spends mindfully
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Indignant
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Angry over some injustice
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Serendipity
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Good luck in making unexpected fortune
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Embroiled
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Deeply involved in something complicated
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Ferret
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Search and discover
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Sanctimonious
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Considering one more pious than others
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Bellicose
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Ready to fight
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Melee
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A fight
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Vicarious
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Experienced at second hand
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Corroborate
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Give evidence for
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Extenuating
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Excusing or justifying
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Replete
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Deeply filled
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Desecrate
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Void a sacred place
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Fleece
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Ask unreasonable price
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Unconscionable
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Excessive
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Exhort
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To encourage
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Contrite
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Feeling pain or sorrow for sins
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Sanguine
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Optimism and confidence
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Ingenuity
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Having creative imagination
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Renege
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Not able to fulfill a promise
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Impede
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Be an obstacle to
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Plodding
Slow and laborious
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Stolid
Having no emotions
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Raffish
Carefree behaviour
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Entice
Provoke someone to do something through persuasion
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Obdurate
Extremely stubborn
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Pithy
Full of meaning
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Deter
Turn away by persuasion
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Dearth
Insufficient number
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Elusive
Hard to pin down or catch
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Endemic
Confined to a certain area
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Snide
Mocking in an indirect way
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Morose
Sullen and ill tempered
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Consummate
Supreme mastery or skill
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Flounder
Great difficulty
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Pertinent
Relevant related to point
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Inadvertent
Happening by chance or unintentionally
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Cornucopia
Quality of being abundant
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Perpetuate
Cause to continue
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Conducive
Tending to bring about..responsible for
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Spurn
Reject with contempt i.e thinking that it is unworthy of doing
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Vacuous
Devoid of matter
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Perennial
Recurring again and again
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Smattering
A superficial understanding of a subject
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Grovel
Showing fear
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Facetious
Amusing in tone
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Genteel
Marked by refinement in taste
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Illicit
Not allowed by law
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Credence
To believe immidiately
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Derisive
Expressing contempt
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Contemptuous
Showing contempt
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Surly
Inclined to anger
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Rankle
To make angry
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Whimsical
Determined by chance or impulse
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Leery
Unwilling to confide
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Peevish
Easily irritated or annoyed
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Quip
A witty saying
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Squander
To throw away
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Impending
Close in time
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Obstinate
Very stubborn
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Travail
Use of physical energy
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Elude
To evade
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Foible
Weakness
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Destitute
Poor enough to help orhers
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Collusion
Secret agreement
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Credulity
Tendency to believe readily
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Connive
Plot illegaly
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Smug
Marked by self satisfaction
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Diligent
Hardworking
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Complacent
Cannot find fault in ones action
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Enmity
Ill will
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Exasperate
Make furious
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Derogative
Insulting
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Melancholy
Sadness
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Redress
Make preparations for
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Irascible
Quickly aroused to anger
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Wanton
Bad woman
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Implicate
To connect or involve
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Forthright
Directly
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Incumbent
Necessary as a duty
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Precarious
Dangerous and not secure
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Incense
Make angry
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Consecrate
Make holy by religious rights
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Presumptuous
Excessively forward
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Prevail
To be in large nos
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Emulate
To imitate a person
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Deride
Speak with contempt
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Delegate
A person elected to represent others
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Glean
Extract from various sources
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Intermittent
Starting or stopping at regular intervals
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Tribulation
Annoying or frustrating event
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Finagle
Achieve something by trickery
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Cavalier
Haughty disregard of others
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Rile
Disturb by minor irritation
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Coalesce
Fuse to grow together
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Uncanny
Surpassing the ordinary
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Clemency
Mercy
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Eccentric
Unusual
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Staid
Char by dignity
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Balk
Refuse to comply
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Convivial
Lively and friendly atmosphere
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Relegate
Assign to lower position
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Dilapidated
In very bad condition
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Deliberate
Discuss pros and cons of
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Debunk
To expose
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Inkling
A slight suggestion
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Snub
Refuse to acknowledge
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Sordid
Bad actions and motives
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Besiege
Surround to defeat
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Qualm
Uneasiness about something
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Peruse
Examine carefully
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Bemused
It means preoccupied..lost
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Resigned
To accept it as it is i.e accept as inevitable(unavoidable)
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Wary
To proceed with caution eg be wary of risky things like mushrooms
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Portentous
Something that is an ominous sign related to a future event
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Subliminal
Negative implicit..the messages our conscious gathers
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Purblind
Reduced vision
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Prim
Polite and straight faced
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Meretricious
To fake
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Lascivious
Thoughts driven by sex
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Vindicate
To clear of accusations with proof
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Innocuous
Harmless
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Impertinent
Being disrespectful
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Profligate
To spend wastefully
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Venality
The condition of being corrupt or susceptible of bribe
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Impertinent
Being disrespectful
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Preclude
To prevent from happening
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Culminate
Reach the highest point
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Mawkish
Overly sentimental to the point of insulting
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Reticent
Disinclined to talk
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Deferential
Showing respect
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Mitigate
Make less severe
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Didactic
Instructive i.e giving lots of info
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Recondite
Difficult to penetrate
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Conspicuous
Completely obvious
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Vehement
Marked by increased enthusiasm and emotions
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Tenacious
Stubbornly unyielding
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Circumvent
Cleverly find ways to escape a duty
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Treacherous
Tending to betray
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Incongrous
Lacking compatibility
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Fallacious
A belief that is true yet kept
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Travesty
Mockery
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Mitigate
To make less severe
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Culminate
To reach highest point
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Impudent
Improperly forward
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Frivolous
Not serious in attitude
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Recondite
Difficult to penetrate
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Conspicuous
Completely obvious
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Deferential
Showing respect
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Tenacious
Stubbornly unyielding
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Contrive
To plan by trickery
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Vehement
Marked by extreme emotions
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Precocious
Early developement or maturity
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Exonerate
Pronounce guilty of charges
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Denigrate
To charge with false accusations
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Petulant
Easily annoyed n irritated
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Ostentatious
Tawdry and vulgar
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Contingent
Gathering of people belonging to a larger group
Dependent upon
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Incorrigible
Impervious to correction
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Temperence
The trait of avoiding excess
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Intransigent
Unwilling to change
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Forthcoming
1) ready or made available when needed
| 2) not easy to talk or not revealing details
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Precipitous
Done suddenly without attention
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Subversive
In opposition to a system
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Inimical
Hostile
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Repudiate
Reject as untrue
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Inveterate
Habitual
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Pernicious
Very harmful; working in a secret way
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Vapid
Boring, lacking imagination
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Cordial
Pleasant and friendly
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Requiem
A ceremony for a person who has died
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Magnanimity
Extremely liberal and generous
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Conjecture
An opinion or idea not based on definite knowledge and formed by guessing
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Decry
To criticise someone publically
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Denounce
Decry
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Languor
State of feeling lazy and without energy
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Reiterate
To repeat something that you have already said
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Meek
Quiet, gentle and always ready to do what other people want you to without expressing your opinion
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Commemorative
Intended to help people remember and respect an important person in past
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Ratify
Sign or give formal consent
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Wistful
Thinking sadly about something that is in the past and we would like to have
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Vivid
Producing very clear picture in mind
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Prolixity
Using too many words
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Presentiment and premonition
Having a feeling that something bad is going to happen in future
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Perigrinated
Travelled from one place to other
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Loiter
To hang around somewhwre with no purpose
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Repudiate and refute
To reject and disapprove
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Recant
To publicly disapprove something that once you used to agree
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Rue
Feel sorry for
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Recapitulate
To review by a brief summary
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Recuperate
Recover from sickness
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Recalcitrant
Opposed to authority
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Requite
To give something in return for
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Invigorated
Brought back to energy
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Smirk
Irritatingly smug smile
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Cachet
Seal of approval
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Indelible
Impossible to forget
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Henpecked
Bullied by ones wife
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Uxorious
Completely given to ones wife
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Facetious
Trying to be amazing when bot appropriate
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Factitious
Not genuine but created and appeared to be made true
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Thrift
Frugal
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Pivotal
Being of crucial importance
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Morbid
Suggesting death and disease
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Utopian
Something that cannot be achieved
