Barron's missed vocab
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- approbation
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APPROBATION =
approval, praise. the crowd welcomed the heroes with approbation - complaisant
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COMPLAISANT =
trying to please, overly polite - condone
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CONDONE =
to forgive, pardon - desultory
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DESULTORY =
aimless, haphazard - diffidence
- DIFFIDENCE = shyness
- discrete
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DISCRETE =
separate, unconnected - disparate
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DISPARATE =
unrelated, basically different - dissolution
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DISSOLUTION =
disintegration, looseness in morals - effrontery
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EFFRONTERY =
nerve, impudence - innocuous
- INNOCUOUS = harmless
- opprobrium
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OPPROBRIUM =
infamy, villification - reproach
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REPROACH =
to express disapproval or disappointment - reprobate
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REPROBATE =
a person hardened in sin, evil - repudiate
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REPUDIATE =
to reject or to refuse to accept - specious
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SPECIOUS =
seemingly reasonable but incorrect - tractable
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TRACTABLE =
docile, easily manageable - intractable
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INTRACTABLE =
stubborn, unyielding - vituperative
- VITUPERATIVE = abusive, scolding
- stint
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STINT =
to be thrifty, to set limits - spate
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SPATE =
a large amount, number or a sudden outpouring