Jan 9 Flashcards


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Advocate

One that pleads the cause of another

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Belabor

To explain or insist on excessively

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Complaisance

Disposition to please or comply

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Corpulent

Having a large bulky body

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Debut

A first appearance or formal entrance into society

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Effectual

Producing or able to produce a desired result

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Filibuster

The use of tactics to delay or prevent action especially in a legislative assembly

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Galvanized

Subjected to the action of an electric current for the purpose of stimulating physiologically.

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Impropriety

Am improper or indecorous act or remark

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Minutiae

A minor detail

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Ostracism

Exclusion by general consent

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Peccadillo

A slight offense

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Rent

Synonymous to the past tense of tear

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Ribald

Crude, Offensive

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Solace

To comfort in grief or misfortune

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Tare

A weed of grain in fields, an undesirable element

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Torpid

Lacking in energy or vigor

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Undermined

Weakened insidiously or secret

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Virulence

Extreme bitterness of malignity of temper

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Vivacity

The quality of state of being lively in temper, conduct, or spirt.