High Level Vocab 1

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meretricious

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attractive in a cheap or false way

Also:

relating to a prostitute

falsely attractive

superficially significant

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pathos

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a quality that causes people to feel sympathy and sadness

Also:

evoking pity

an emotion of sympathetic pity

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fenestrated

Back 3

having one or more openings or pores

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pernicious

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causing great harm or damage often in a way that is not easily seen or noticed

Also:

wicked, highly injurious

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perspicacious

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having or showing an ability to notice and understand things that are difficult or not obvious

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condign

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deserved, appropriate

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funereal

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very sad and serious, suggesting a funeral

Also:

of or relating to a funeral

befitting or suggesting a funeral

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assignation

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a meeting between lovers

Also:

the act of assigning

an appointment of time and place for a meeting

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eponym

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one for whom or which something is or is believed to be named

Also:

a name (as of a drug or disease) based on or derived from an eponym

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disapprobation

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the act or state of disapproving

Also:

the state of being disapproved

condemnation

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eschar

Back 11

a scab formed especially after a burn

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vitiate

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to make (something) less effective, to ruin or spoil something

Also:

to debase in a moral or aesthetic status

to make faulty

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recrudescence

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a new outbreak after a period of abatement or inactivity; renewal

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histrionic

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too emotional or dramatic

Also:

deliberately affected, theatrical

of or relating to actors, acting, or theater

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asperity

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harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger

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rigor, severity

roughness of a surface

roughness in manner or temper

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paregoric

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camphorated tincture of opium used especially to relieve pain

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platitude

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a statement that expresses an idea that is not new

Also:

a quality or state of being dull or insipid

a banal, trite, or stale remark

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fulsome

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expressing something such as praise or thanks in a very enthusiastic or emotional way

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copious

generous in amount, extent, or spirit

morally or generally offensive

exceding the bounds of good taste

excessively flattering

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expurgate

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to change a written work by removing parts that might offend people

Also:

to cleanse of something morally harmful

expunge objectional parts before publication

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imbricate

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lying lapped over each other in regular order

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overlap, especially to overlap like roof tiles