English Vocab Unit 3

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Amiable

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Having or displaying a friendly and pleasant manner

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Approbation

Back 2

Approval or praise

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Assent

Back 3

The expression of approval or agreement

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Behoove

Back 4

It is a duty or responsibility for someone to do something it is incumbent on

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Cavalier

Back 5

Showing a lack of proper concern; offhand

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Compatriot

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A fellow citizen or national of a country

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Coquette

Back 7

A woman who flirts

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Cursory

Back 8

Hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed

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Deprecate

Back 9

Express disapproval of

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Diminutive

Back 10

Extremely or unusually small

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Earnest

Back 11

Resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction

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Ejaculate

Back 12

Say something quickly and suddenly

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Florid

Back 13

Having a red or flush complexion or elaborately or excessively intricate or complicated

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Gallantry

Back 14

Courageous behavior especially in battle

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Imbibe

Back 15

Drink alcohol or absorb or assimilate ideas or knowledge

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Incongruous

Back 16

Not in harmony were keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of something

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Insipid

Back 17

Lacking flavor or lacking vigor or interests

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Interpose

Back 18

Place or insert between one thing and another

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Jocose

Back 19

Playful or humorous

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Lucid

Back 20

Expressed clearly easy to understand

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Meditative

Back 21

Of, involving, or absorbed in meditation or considered thought

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Parapet

Back 22

A protective wall along the edge of a roof, bridge, or balcony

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Pregnant

Back 23

Full of meaning, significant or suggestive, or a woman of female animal having a child or young developing in the uterus

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Puerile

Back 24

Childishly silly and trivial

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Reciprocate

Back 25

Respond to a gesture or action by making a corresponding one, or (of a part of machine) move backward and forward in a straight line

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Retort

Back 26

Say something and answer to a remark or accusation, typically in a sharp, angry, or wittily incisive manner

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Spurious

Back 27

Not being what it purports to be, false or fake, or (of a line of reasoning) apparently but not actually valid

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Traverse

Back 28

Travel across or through or move (something) back and forth or sideways

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Urbane

Back 29

( of a person, especially of a man) suave, courteous, and refined in manner