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Flashcards by Sarah Tabba, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Sarah Tabba
about 2 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| approbation | approval or praise |
| anemic | lacking in color, spirit, or vitality |
| arch | deliberately or affectedly playful and teasing |
| avid | having or showing a keen interest in or enthusiasm for something |
| candid | truthful and straightforward; frank |
| carte blanche | complete freedom to act as one wishes or thinks best |
| comission | an amount of money, typically a set percentage of the value involved, paid to an agent in a commercial transaction |
| crestfallen | sad and disappointed |
| enthrall | capture the fascinated attention of |
| gratis | without charge; free/given or done for nothing; free |
| ignormaus | an ignorant or stupid person |
| implacable | unable to be placated/relentless; unstoppable |
| imbue | (often be imbued with) inspire or permeate with a feeling or quality |
| incarnate | a spirit embodied in human form |
| incipient | beginning to happen or develop/developing into a specified type or role |
| indignation | anger or annoyance provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment |
| iaconic | using very few words (in speech or style of writing) |
| mercurial | subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind |
| philanderer | person who readily or frequently enters into casual sexual relationships |
| raucous | making or constituting a disturbingly harsh and loud noise |
| remiss | lacking care of attention to duty; negligent |
| reproach | address someone in such a way as to express disapproval or disappointment |
| requiem | a religious service in remembrance of the dead |
| self-reproach | blame directed at oneself |
| stolid | calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation |
| seethe | being filled with an intense but unexpressed anger |
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