Advancing Vocabulary Skills: Fourth Edition (all words) – Flashcards
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Detriment
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A disadvantage
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Dexterous
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Skilled
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Discretion
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Good sense
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Facetious
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Funny
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Gregarious
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Outgoing
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Optimum
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Ideal
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Ostentatious
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Showy
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Scrupulous
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Ethical
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Sensory
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Of the senses
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Vicarious
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Indirect
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Collaborate
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To act as a team
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Despondent
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Depressed
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Instigate
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To cause
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Resilient
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Quick to recover
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Retrospect
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Looking back
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Rudimentary
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Basic
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Scoff
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To laugh at
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Squelch
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To hold back
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Venerate
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To honor
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Zealot
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An extremist
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Ambiguous
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Unclear
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Dissident
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A rebel
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Embellish
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To decorate
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Fritter
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To waste
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Inadvertent
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Not intended
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Inane
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Silly
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Juxtapose
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To put side by side
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Lethargy
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Weariness
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Sporadic
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Irregular
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Subsidize
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To pay for
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Berate
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To scold angrily
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Estrange
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To drive away
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Euphoric
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Very happy
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Impetuous
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Impulsive
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Infallible
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Perfect
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Maudlin
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Overly emotional
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Regress
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To go backward
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Relinquish
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To give up
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Ubiquitous
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Found everywhere
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Zenith
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The highest point
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Charlatan
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A con artist
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Corroborate
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To support
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Disseminate
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To spread
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Diverge
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To separate
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Dormant
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Not active
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Hoist
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To raise
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Illicit
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Unlawful
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Irrevocable
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Not reversible
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Precipitate
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To bring on
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Proliferation
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A rapid increase
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UNIT 2
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This is the end of unit one and the beginning of unit two
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Equivocate
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To be unclear
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Fortuitous
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Purely accidental
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Impeccable
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Flawless
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Liaison
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A link
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Predisposed
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Tending toward or open to something beforehand
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Propensity
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Natural preference or tendency
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Reprehensible
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Deserving of blame
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Sham
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Something meant to deceive
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Solace
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Comfort in sorrow or misfortune
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Solicitous
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Showing or expressing concern care or attention
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Attrition
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A gradual natural decrease in number
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Circumvent
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To avoid or escape from
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Cohesive
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Sticking or holding together
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Grievous
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Causing grief or pain
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Inundate
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Overwhelm with a large number or amount
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Oblivious
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Not noticing
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Reticent
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Quiet or uncommunicative
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Robust
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Healthy and strong
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Sanction
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To authorize, allow, or approve
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Vociferous
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Noisy expressing feelings loudly and intensely
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Bolster
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To hold up strengthen or reinforce; support with a rigid object
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Depreciate
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To fall or decrease in value or price
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Indiscriminate
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Not chosen carefully not based on careful selection
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Inquisitive
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Curious eager to learn
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Nebulous
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Vague or unclear
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Relegate
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To assign to a less important or less satisfying position, place, or condition
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Replete
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Plentiful supply ; filled with
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Sedentary
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Marked by much sitting requiring or taking little exercise
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Tenet
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A belief or principal held to be true by an individual or group
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Terse
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Brief and clear affectively concise
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Autonomy
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Freedom from control
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Bureaucratic
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Overregulated
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Mandate
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Official permission
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Ostracize
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To reject
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Raucous
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Disorderly, loud, or disruptive
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Recourse
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A choice
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Reiterate
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To repeat
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Tantamount
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Similar to ;bearing resemblance
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Tenacious
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Grasping strongly
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Utopia
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A perfect or self-government
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Clandestine
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Done in secret kept hidden
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Contingency
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A possible future event that must be prepared for or guarded against
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Egocentric
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Self-centered seeing everything in terms of oneself
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Exonerate
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To clear of an accusation or charge, to prove innocence
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Incongruous
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Out of place having parts not in harmony or that are inconsistent
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Indigenous
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Living growing or produced nationally in a particular place, native
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Liability
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Something that acts as a disadvantage, a drawback
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Prolific
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Producing many works, results, or offspring
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Reinstate
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To restore to a previous position or condition
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Superfluous
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Beyond what is needed, wanted, or useful
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UNIT 3
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This is the end of unit two and the beginning of unit three
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Advocate
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To speak or write in favor of, support
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Antipathy
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A strong dislike or taste
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Emancipate
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To set free from slavery, captivity, or oppression
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Idiosyncrasy
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A personal quirk
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Imminent
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About to happen
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Impede
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To delay or slow, get in the way of
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Inclusive
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Including much or everything
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Jurisdiction
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The authority to administer justice; power, range or extent of authority
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Precarious
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Dangerous, risky, dangerously uncertain
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Preposterous
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Contrary to nature or reason and thus laughable or absurd
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Austere
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Very plain
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Esoteric
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Too difficult to understand
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Facsimile
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An exact copy
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Grotesque
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Strange or unpleasant looking
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Mesmerize
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To fascinate or capture the attention of
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Metamorphosis
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To change in form
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Notorious
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Regarded with curiosity
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Perfunctory
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Uninterested
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Provocative
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Attention-getting
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Travesty
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A joking disrespectful imitation
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Connoisseur
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An expert in fine arts or in matters of taste
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Conspiracy
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A secret plot by two or more people usually harmful or illegal
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Contrite
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Truly sorry for having done wrong
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Distraught
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Very troubled or distressed
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Germane
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Having to do with the issue at hand; relevance
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Lucid
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Clearly expressed or easily understood
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Plight
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A situation marked by difficulty, hardship, or fortune
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Superficially
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In an on the surface matter, not thoroughly
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Symmetrical
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The same on both sides
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Verbose
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Using or containing too many words
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Adept
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Highly skilled, an expert
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Encompass
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To include or contain
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Entrepreneur
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A person who organizes, manages, and takes the risk of a business undertaking
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Eradicate
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To wipe out
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Homogenous
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Made up of similar or identical parts
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Presumptuous
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To bold or overly confident
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Sordid
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Indecent, morally low, or corrupt
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Standardize
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To make consistent, cause to conform to a model
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Stint
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A specific period of work or service, the amount of time spent
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Stringent
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Strictly controlled or enforced
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Exhort
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To urge with an argument or strong advice
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Flamboyant
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Very showy or strikingly bold
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Foible
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A minor weakness or character flaw
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Innocuous
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Harmless and inoffensive
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Magnanimous
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Noble in mind and spirit
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Masochist
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A person who gain satisfaction from suffering physical or physiological pain
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Meticulous
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Extremely careful and exact
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Rancor
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Intense hatred for ill will
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Recrimination
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An accusation made in response to an accuser
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Repugnant
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Offensive, distasteful, and repulsive
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UNIT 4
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This is the end of unit three and the beginning of unit four
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Chide
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To scold mildly or express disapproval
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Coalition
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A union of individuals, groups, or nations for some specific purpose
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Commensurate
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Corresponding in degree, number, or size
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Connotation
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A secondary meaning suggested a word
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Diabolic
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Very cruel, wicked, demonic
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Dilapidated
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Falling into a state in which repairs are badly needed
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Integral
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Necessary to the whole
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Noxious
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Poisonous
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Scenario
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A sequence of events that is imagined
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Yen
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A longing for
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Atrophy
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To waste away
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Deplore
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To feel or express disapproval of
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Deprivation
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A lack or shortage of inpatient necessity
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Exacerbate
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To aggravate the situation or condition and make more severe
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Imperative
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Necessary or urgent
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Mitigate
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To relieve
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Objective
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Not influenced by emotion or personal prejudice not biased
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Panacea
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Something supposed to cure all diseases or difficulties
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Unprecedented
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Being the first instance of something never having occurred before
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Utilitarian
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Made for practical use
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Decorum
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Correctness in behavior or manners, socially acceptable behavior
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Espouse
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To support, argue for, or adopt an idea or cause
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Exhilaration
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Cheerfulness, high spirits
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Exorbitant
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Excessive in amount cost or price
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Extricate
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Two free from entangled situational difficulty
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Facilitate
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To make it easier to do or get
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Orthodox
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Following established traditional rules or beliefs
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Rejuvenate
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To make something seem fresh or new again
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Synchronize
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To agree in time
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Tenuous
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Having little substance or basis
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Assimilate
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To blend into or just to a main culture
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Belligerent
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eager to argue or fight, hostile or aggressive
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Demeanor
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Conduct, outward behavior, manner
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Denunciation
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Strong expression of disapproval, an act of condemning, especially publicly
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Dissipate
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Two thin out or scatter and gradually vanish, drive away
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Indolent
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Lazy or disliking or avoiding work
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Inherent
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Existing as a national or central quality of a person or thing
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Nonchalant
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Casual and carefree
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Unassuming
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Modest not boastful or arrogant
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Unilateral
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Involving or Done by only one side
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Analogy
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A comparison
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Annihilate
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To destroy completely
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Criterion
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A standard by which something is or can be judged
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Emanate
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To flow come out from a source
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Holistic
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Concerned with the whole
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Placebo
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A fake medicine
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Proficient
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Skilled and highly competent
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Staunch
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Firm loyal and strong in support
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Subversive
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Intended to destroy
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Vindicate
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Not prove innocence
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UNIT 5
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This is the end of unit four and the beginning of unit five
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Disparity
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And inequality or difference
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Forestall
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To prevent or hinder by taking action beforehand
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Insidious
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Subtly harmful
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Insinuate
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To imply
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Interrogate
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To Question
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Obsequious
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Overly eager to please
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Omnipotent
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All-knowing or all-powerful
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Opportune
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Appropriate
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Permeate
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To penetrate
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Retribution
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Something given or done as payment usually a penalty
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Complement
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To go perfectly with
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Discreet
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Wise in keeping silent about secrets
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Fastidious
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Extremely attentive to details
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Flout
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To defy insultingly
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Heinous
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Extremely outrageous or evil
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Implement
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To carry out or put into practice
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Impromptu
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Of the moment not planned
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Inference
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A conclusion based on evidence
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Intuition
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Instinctive knowledge or a hunch
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Obtrusive
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Undesirably noticeable
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Auspicious
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Favorable
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Expedite
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To fasten the process of
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Extenuating
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Providing a good excuse
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Fraudulent
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Dishonest or illegal
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Innuendo
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And obviously lie
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Rebuke
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To criticize
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Redeem
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To make up for past errors
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Subordinate
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Lower than in rank of authority
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Transgress
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To commit an offense
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Vehement
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To feel strongly about
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Deride
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To make fun of or ridicule
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Derogatory
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Expressing a low opinion
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Fabricate
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To make up a story about in order to deceive
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Impending
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Something that will someday happen undoubtably
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Macabre
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Gruesome; suggestive of death and decay
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Misconstrue
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To misunderstand
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Paramount
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Of greatest concern or importance
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Quandary
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A state of confusion
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Turbulent
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Violence or sudden and jerking movements
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Validate
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To prove
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Adroit
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An expert of
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Constituent
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Someone who was represented
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Contention
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A claim
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Irreparable
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Not able to be fixed
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Pinnacle
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The highest point
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Platitude
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An unoriginal comment or commonly said saying
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Promiscuous
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Unselective when choosing a partner
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Repudiate
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To reject
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Spontaneous
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Unplanned
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Stigma
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A mark of shame or disgrace
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Abrasive
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Harsh
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Admonish
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Criticized
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Antithesis
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The reverse or opposite
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Culmination
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The final High Point
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Docile
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Obedience
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Emulate
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To imitate
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Hierarchy
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A ranked system
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Incapacitate
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To Disable
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Prognosis
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A forecast or prediction
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Tumult
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Uproar
