Bergen Evans Vocabulary List Volume 1 Side 1

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Acumen

Back 1

keen insight

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Adamant

Back 2

unyielding, absolutely firm

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Anomaly

Back 3

a deviation from the usual, out of the ordinary

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Antipathy

Back 4

dislike of, hatred for, aversion to

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Apathy

Back 5

lack of feeling, absence of emotion

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Assiduous

Back 6

constant, persistent

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Autonomous

Back 7

self-governing, independent of outside control

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Banal

Back 8

tithe, commonplace, uninspired

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Candor

Back 9

frankness, outspokenness

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Caprice

Back 10

a whim, an unmotivated decision

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Castigate

Back 11

severely criticize

Front 12

Chicanery

Back 12

trickery, subterfuge

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Depraved

Back 13

incorrigibly evil

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Discursive

Back 14

rambling, digressive

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Dissonance

Back 15

discord, unharmonious effects

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Dour

Back 16

sour, sullen, gloomy

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Ebullient

Back 17

full of enthusiasm, bubbling with energy

Front 18

Ecstatic

Back 18

overpowered by delight

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Enervate

Back 19

deprive of nervous energy, weaken

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Engender

Back 20

cause. produce

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Ephemeral

Back 21

short-lived, fleeting

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Esoteric

Back 22

hidden, secret

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Expiate

Back 23

atone for, make amends for

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Fiasco

Back 24

complete, utter failure

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Flaccid

Back 25

flabby, weak

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Laconic

Back 26

brief, terse

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Latent

Back 27

unrevealed, unused

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Lethargic

Back 28

sluggish, drowsily lazy

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Lugubrious

Back 29

ridiculously sorrowful, mournful

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Moribund

Back 30

dying, ending

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Myopic

Back 31

near-sighted

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Obstreperous

Back 32

boisterous, unruly

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Parsimonious

Back 33

excessively frugal, penny pinching

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Perfidious

Back 34

traitorous, treacherous

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Perfunctory

Back 35

mechanical, indifferent

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Perspicuity

Back 36

clearness, lucidity

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Polemic

Back 37

controversy argumentative debate

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Procrastinate

Back 38

postpone, put off, delay

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Prototype

Back 39

model, pattern

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Regressive

Back 40

going backward

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Sagacity

Back 41

wisdom

Front 42

Sententious

Back 42

full of old sayings, maxims, or proverbs

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Tacit

Back 43

unexpressed but understood

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Tenuous

Back 44

thin, unsubstantial, flimsy

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Turgid

Back 45

swollen, bombastic

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Ubiquitous

Back 46

everywhere at the same time

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Unctuous

Back 47

oily, overly suave

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Vapid

Back 48

empty, dull

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Voluptuous

Back 49

sensual, pleasure loving and giving

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Wry

Back 50

indirect, twisted