vocab11
Terms
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- dowdy
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adjective: poorly dressed, shabby; lacking smartness and good taste - discursive
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adjective: passing aimlessly from one place or subject to another, rambling, roving, nomadic - denizen
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noun: an inhabitant, resident; one who frequents a place - censurable
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adjective: deserving of blame or correction - contingent
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adjective: likely but not certain to happen, possible; dependent on uncertain events or conditions; happening by chance;
noun: a representative group forming part of a larger body - abstemious
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adjective: moderate, sparing (as in eating and drinking); characterized by abstinence and self-discipline - florid
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adjective: highly colored, reddish; excessively ornate, overdecorated, showy - foist
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verb: to impose by fraud; to pass off as worthy or genuine; to bring in by stealth, dishonesty, or coercion - corroborate
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verb: to confirm, make more certain - disseminate
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verb: to scatter widely - sear
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verb: to make or become dry and withered; to char or scorch the surface of; to harden or make unfeeling - accentuate
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verb: to emphasive, place stress on - perceptive
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adjective: having sympathetic insight or understancing, capable of keen appreciation - specious
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adjective: deceptive, apparently good or valid but lacking real merit - palpable
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adjective: capable of being touched or felt; easily seen, heard, or recognized - pernicious
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adjective: extremely harmful; deadly, fatal - quail
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verb: to shrink back in fear, lose heart in a difficult or dangerous situation - satiate
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verb: to satisfy completely; to fill to excess;
adjective: full, satisfied - gauche
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adjective: awkward, lacking in social graces, tactless, clumsy - inculcate
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verb: to impress on the mind by repetition, teach persistently and earnestly - heresy
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noun: an opinion different from accepted belief; the denial of an idea that is generally held sacred - salient
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adjective: leaping, jumping, or springing forth; prominent, standing out, conspicuous;
noun: a projection or bulge, a land form that projects upward or outward