Vocab For Exam

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Bowdlerize

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To remove parts considered vulgar

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Quixotic

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Idealistic but not practical

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Stoical:

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Indifferent to pain/pleasure

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Expedite:

Back 4

To sepped up the process of something

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Equivocate:

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to speak vaguely inorder to mislead someone

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Evocative:

Back 6

prompting images from the past

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Machiavellian:

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Unprincipled but crafty

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Laconic

Back 8

brief, concise

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Maudlin:

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Extremely sentimental

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Ostracize

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exclude from society

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Gregarious:

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liking the company of others

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specious:

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Appearing to be true but really false

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circumspect:

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showing unwillingness to act without thinking about circumstances

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Cupidity:

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greed

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Philistine:

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an uncultured person who is indifferent to artistic/ intellectual activities

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Foible:

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minor or amusing faults

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Precarious:

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unsafe/ risky

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Apathetic:

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Not taking any tnerest in anything or not bothering to do anything

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Empathize:

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To understand others feelings

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Pathos:

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the quality that makes poeple feel pity/ sadness

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Protean:

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readily changing character

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Idiosyncrasy:

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personal peculiarity

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Rankle:

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cause bitterness or hatred

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Narcissisim:

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Self admiration

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Iconoclast:

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attacker of traditional beliefs

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Sardonic

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Mockingly bitter

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Supercillious:

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scornfully looking down on others

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Capricious

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changeable, unpredictable

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Jargon:

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meaningless manner

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Sordid:

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demonstrating the worsst aspects of human nature; dirt, nasty