Vocab #5 Flashcards

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Acrimonious

Caustic; bitter (language)

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Ameliorate

To make better; to improve

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Amenable

Open to or willing to follow advice; tractable

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Amorphous

Shapeless; having no definite form

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Buoyant

Capable of floating; cheerful

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Cajole

To persuade with deliberate flattery; to coax

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Calamity

A serious event causing distress or misfortune

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Debase

To reduce in dignity or quality

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Efface

To erase; to wear away

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Elucidate

To make clear; to explain

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Ephemeral

Lasting a short period of time; fleeting

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12

Ferocity

Savagery

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Flourish

To thrive; to grow well

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Haughty

Arrogant; excessively proud and vain

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Impervious

Incapable of being entered or penetrated

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Inane

Lacking significance; silly, insipid

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Indolence

Laziness

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Infallible

Incapable of error

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Inscrutable

Difficult to understand; mysterious

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Languid

Slow, sluggish, listless, weak

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Malice

Desire to harm others

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Oblique

Slanting, indirect, evasive, misleading

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Opulence

Wealth, affluence, abundance

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Penitent

Showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing; repentant

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Perfunctory

Acting routinely with little interest or care

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