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120 Cards in this Set
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Approbation
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(n) official praise or approval
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Assuage
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(v) to make an unpleasant feeling less painful or severe
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Coalition
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(n) a union of two or more political parties that allows them to form a government or fight an election together
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Decadence
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(n) behaviour that shows that someone has low moral standards and is more concerned with pleasure than serious matters
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Elicit
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(v) to succeed in getting information or a reaction from someone
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Expostulate
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(v) to express strong disapproval
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Hackneyed
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(adj) a hackneyed phrase is boring and does not have much meaning because it has been used so often
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Hiatus
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(n) a break or interruption in an activity
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Innuendo
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(n) a remark that suggests something sexual or unpleasant without saying it directly
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Intercede
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(v) to speak in support of someone
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Jaded
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(adj) someone who is jaded is no longer interested in or excited by something
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Lurid
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(adj) a description
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Meritorious
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(adj) very good and deserving praise
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Petulant
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(adj) behaving in an unreasonably impatient and angry way
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Prerogative
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(n) a right that someone has
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Provincial
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(adj) old-fashioned and not interested in anything new or different - used to show disapproval (n) someone who comes from a part of a country that is not near the capital
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Simulate
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(v) to make or produce something that is not real but has the appearance or feeling of being real
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Transcend
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(v) to go beyond the usual limits of something
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Umbrage
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(n) to be offended by something that someone has done or said
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Unctuous
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(adj) too friendly and praising people too much in a way that seems very insincere
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Ameliorate
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(v) to make a bad situation better or less harmful
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Aplomb
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(n) in a confident and skilful way
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Bombastic
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containing long words that sound important but have no real meaning
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Callow
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(adj) young and without experience - used to show disapproval
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Drivel
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(n) something that is said or written that is silly or does not mean anything (v) say or write something that is silly or does not mean anything
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Epitome
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(n) the best possible example of something
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Exhort
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(v) to try very hard to persuade someone to do something
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Ex officio
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(adj, adv) a member of an organization is only a member because of their rank or position
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Infringe
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(v) to do something that is against a law or someone's legal rights
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Ingratiate
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(v) to try very hard to get someone's approval - used to show disapproval
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Interloper
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(n) someone who enters a place or group where they should not be
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Intrinsic
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(adj) being part of the nature or character of someone or something
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Inveigh
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(v) to criticize someone or something strongly
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Lassitude
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(n) tiredness and lack of energy or interest
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Millennnium
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(n) a period of 1000 years
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Occult
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(adj) magical and mysterious (n) mysterious practices and powers involving magic and spirits
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Permeate
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(v) present in every part of it
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Precipitate
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(v) make something serious happen suddenly or more quickly than was expected (adj) happening or done too quickly
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Stringent
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(adj) law
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Surmise
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(v) to guess that something is true
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Abominate
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(v) to hate something very much
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Acculturation
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(n) changing the beliefs
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Adventitious
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(adj) happening by chance
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Ascribe
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(v) to claim that something is caused by a particular person
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Circuitous
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(adj) going from one place to another in a way that is longer than the most direct way
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Commiserate
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(v) to express your sympathy for someone who is unhappy about something
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Enjoin
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(v) to order or try to persuade someone to do something
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Expedite
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(v) to make a process or action happen more quickly
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Expiate
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(v) to show you are sorry for something you have done wrong by accepting your punishment willingly
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Ferment
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(n) a situation of great excitement or trouble in a country
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Inadvertent
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(adj) without realizing what you are doing
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Nominal
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(adj) officially described as being something
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Noncommittal
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(adj) deliberately not expressing your opinion or intentions clearly
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Peculate
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(v) to steal from the place where you work; borrow temporarily for yourself
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Proclivity
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(n) a tendency to behave in a particular way
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Sangfroid
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(n) calm
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Seditious
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(adj) speech
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Tenuous
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(adj) a situation or relationship that is uncertain
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Vitriolic
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(adj) language
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Wheedle
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(v) to persuade someone to do or give you something
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Affable
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(adj) friendly and easy to talk to
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Aggrandize
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(v) to increase the effects or strength of something
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Amorphous
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(adj) having no definite shape or features
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Aura
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(n) a quality or feeling that seems to surround or come from a person or a place
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Contraband
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(n) goods that are brought into a country illegally
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Erudite
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(adj) showing a lot of knowledge based on careful study
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Gossamer
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(adj) light or delicate (n) a very light thin material
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Infer
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(v) to form an opinion that something is probably true because of information that you have
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Inscrutable
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(adj) someone who shows no emotion or reaction in the expression on their face so that it is impossible to know what they are feeling or thinking
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Insular
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(adj) interested in your own group
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Irrevocable
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(adj) a decision
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Propensity
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(n) a natural tendency to behave in a particular way
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Querulous
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(adj) someone who complains about things in an annoying way
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Remonstrate
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(v) to tell someone that you strongly disapprove of something they have said or done
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Repudiate
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(v) to refuse to accept or continue with something
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Resilient
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(adj) able to become strong
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Reverberate
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(v) heard many times as it is sent back from different surfaces
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Scurrilous
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(adj) remarks
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Sedulous
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(adj) working very hard in a determined way without stopping
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Sleazy
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(adj) dirty
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Amnesty
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(n) an official order by a government that allows a particular group of prisoners to go free; a period of time when you can admit to doing something illegal without being punished
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Autonomy
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(n) freedom that a place or an organization has to govern or control itself
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Axiomatic
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(adj) something that does not need to be proved because you can easily see that it is true
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Blazon
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(v) to be written or shown on something in a very noticeable way
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Caveat
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(n) a warning that something may not be completely true
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Equitable
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(adj) treating all people in a fair and equal way
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Extricate
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(v) to escape from a difficult or embarrassing situation
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Filch
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(v) to steal something small or not very valuable
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Flout
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(v) to deliberately disobey a law
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Fractious
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(adj) someone who is fractious becomes angry very easily
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Precept
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(n) rule on which a way of thinking or behaving is based
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Salutary
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(adj) helpful
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Scathing
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(adj) a remark criticizing someone or something very severely
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Scourge
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(v) to cause a lot of harm or suffering to a place or group of people (n) something that causes a lot of harm or suffering
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Sepulchral
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(adj) sad
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Soporific
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(adj) making you feel ready to sleep (n) something that makes you feel ready to sleep
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Straightlaced
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(adj) having strict
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Transient
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(adj) continuing only for a short time (n) someone who has no home and moves around from place to place
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Unwieldly
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(adj) an object that is big
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Vapid
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(adj) lacking intelligence
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Anomolous
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(adj) different from what you expected to find
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Aspersion
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(n) an unkind remark or an unfair judgment
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Bizarre
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(adj) very unusual or strange
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Brusque
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(adj) using very few words in a way that seems rude
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Cajole
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(v) to gradually persuade someone to do something by being nice to them
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Castigate
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(v) to criticize or punish someone severely
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Contrive
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(v) to arrange an event or situation in a clever way
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Demagogue
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(n) a political leader who tries to make people feel strong emotions in order to influence their opinions - used to show disapproval
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Disabuse
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(v) to persuade someone that what they believe is not true
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Ennui
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(n) a feeling of being tired
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Fetter
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(n) things that prevent someone from being free (v) to restrict someone's freedom and prevent them from doing what they want
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Heinous
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(adj) very shocking and immoral
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Immutable
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(adj) never changing or impossible to change
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Insurgent
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(n) one of a group of people fighting against the government of their own country
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Megalomania
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(n) when someone wants to have a lot of power for themselves and enjoys having control over other people's lives
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Sinecure
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(n) a job which you get paid for even though you do not have to do very much work
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Surreptitious
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(adj) done secretly or quickly because you do not want other people to notice
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Transgress
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(v) to do something that is against the rules of social behaviour or against a moral principle
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Transmute
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(v) to change one substance or type of thing into another
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Vicarious
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(adj) experienced by watching or reading about someone else doing something
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