English Vocab 3

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Dolorous

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Sad, Mournful

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Gregarious

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Sociable

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Diligent

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Hard-Working

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Abate

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To reduce in amount, degree, or intensity; to lessen

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Aberration

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A departure from the normal

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Accolade

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Praise or approval

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Accure

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To be added by growth

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Acme

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Highest Point

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Acolyte

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Novice: young assistant

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Abet

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To encourage or help, especially in doing something wrong

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Acrimonious

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bitter in language or manner

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Acumen

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Insight

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Adamant

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firm in purpose or opinion: unyeilding

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Admonition

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Warning

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Adulation

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excessive praise

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Aesthetic

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pertaining to the beautiful

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Pathos

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Quality evoking compassion or pity

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Alacrity

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cheerful willingness or eagerness: speed

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Alleviate

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to make more bearable: to lesson

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Altercation

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To quarrel

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Ameliorate

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to make better

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Amity

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peaceful relations; freindship

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August

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Majestic

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Apathy

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Indifference, lack of feeling or interest

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Appease

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To pacify or Soothe

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Wrath

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Anger

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Metonymy

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Substitution of a name with that of another associated with it

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Consecrate

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to set something apart as sacred

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Omnipotent

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All-powerful

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Timorous

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Fearful or Apprehensive

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Mitigate

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to moderate, soften or lessen

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Chide

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to scold

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Servile

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Humbly yielding or Submissive

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Sanguine

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Cheerful or Hopeful

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Loquacious

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Talkative

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Incessant

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Without pause

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Penury

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Poverty

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Prudence

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Caution Discretion

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Cache

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Hiding Place

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Didactic

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Teaches a specific lesson or moral

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Antipathy

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Strong Dislike

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Candid

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Frank Straight-Forward

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Clemency

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Mercy

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Guile

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Deception

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Diabolical

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Devilish

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Furtive

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Secretive

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Acquiesce

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to Comply or Yield

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Pejorative

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Disparaging or Derogatory

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Castigate

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to Punish or Rebuke

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Iniquity

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Sin

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Arbitrary

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Depending on Individual or even Random Discretion: not fixed in Law

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Arid

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Dry

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Rhetoric

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the art of Persuassion

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Articulate

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Capable of bing a good speaker

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Ascetic

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Self-Denying

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Assiduous

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Diligent

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Assuage

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To make less Buerdensome, to clam, to alleviate

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Astute

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Shrewd

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Augment

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to Increase

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Austere

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stern and severe

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Avarice

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Greed

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Obstinate

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Stubborn

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Parsimomious

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Stingy, Cheap

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Ostentatious

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Showy, Flaunting

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Propietor

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owner of a buisiness

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Mendicant

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Beggar

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Visage

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Facial Expression

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Paradox

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a Self-Contradictory statement or situation

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Ambiguous

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Vague: Having two or more Interpretations

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Usury

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the Lending of the Money at an Exorbitant rate of interest

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Arduous

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difficult

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Munificent

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Generous

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Importunante

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insistent

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Anomalous

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abnormal

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Aversion

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intense Dislike

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Capricious

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Characterized by the sudden change; fickle

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Veracious

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truthful

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Deferential

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marked by courteous respect

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Ominous

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being an omen of evil

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Tangible

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capable of being touched

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Abode

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home or dwelling place

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Querulous

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complaining

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Endeavor

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effort

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Expedite

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to speed the process of

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Percarious

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Dangerouly lacking in security or stability

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Ennui

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boredom

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Superfluous

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extra

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Inevitable

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unavoidable

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Prowess

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exceptional skill

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Paean

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song of praise

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Bucolic

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pertaining to the countryside

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Altruism

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selflessness

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Destitute

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poverty-stricken

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Ravenous

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extremely hungry

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Frugal

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thrifty

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Averse

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reluctant

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Banal

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lacking originality; trite

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Benign

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kindly

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Bibliophile

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lover of books

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Bland

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mild