Quick Quiz #7 Flashcards by Janvich Vanichpipat

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Obscure

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Hard to understand

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Obsequious

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Fawning

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Obtuse

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Insensitive

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Officious

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Annoyingly helpful

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Onerous

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Burdensome

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Opaque

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Impossible to see through

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Opulent

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Luxurious

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Orthodox

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Conventional

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Ostensible

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Misleading apparent

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Ostentatious

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Showing off

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Pacify

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Calm someone down

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Painstaking

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Extremely careful

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Palliate

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Alleviate

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Palpable

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Obvious

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Paltry

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Insignificant

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Panacea

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Cure for everthing

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Paradigm

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Model

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Paradox

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Contradictory truth

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Parochial

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Narrow in point of view

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Parody

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Satirical imitation

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Parsimonious

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Stingy

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Partisan

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Supporter of a cause

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Patent

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Obvious

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Paternal

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Fatherly

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Pathology

Science of diseases

Patriarch

Male head of family

Patrician

Aristocrat

Patronize

Treat as an inferior

Paucity

Scarcity

Peccadillo

Minor offense

Pedantic

Boringly scholarly

Pedestrian

Unimaginative

Pejorative

Negative

Penchant

Strong liking

Penitent

Sorry

Pensive

Thoughtful and sad

Peremptory

Final

Perennial

Continual

Perfidy

Treachery

Perfunctory

Unenthusiastic

Peripatetic

Wandering

Periphery

Outside edge of something

Perjury

Lying under oath

Permeate

Penetrate

Pernicious

Deadly

Perquisite

Job-related privilege

Prerequisite

Necessity

Pertinent

Relevant

Perturb

Disturb greatly

Peruse

Read carefully

Pervade

Spread throughout

Petulant

Rude

Philanthropy

Love for mankind

Philistine

Smugly ignorant person

Pious

Reverent

Pivotal

Crucial

Placate

Pacify

Plaintive

Expressing sadness

Platitude

Trite remark

Plebeian

Low class

Plethora

Excess

Poignant

Painfully emotional

Polarize

Cause opposing position

Polemic

Powerful refutation

Ponderous

Massive and clumsy

Portent

Omen

Portentous

Ominous

Postulate

Axiom

Pragmatic

Practical

Precedent

Earlier example

Precept

Rule to live by

Precipitate

Cause to happen abruptly

Precipitous

Steep

Preclude

Prevent

Precursor

Forerunner

Predilection

Natural preference

Preeminent

Outstanding

Preempt

Seize by prior right

Premise

Assumption

Prepossess

Preoccupy

Prerogative

Right or privilege

Prevail

Triumph

Pristine

Unspoiled

Prodigal

Wastefully extravagant

Prodigious

Extraordinary

Prodigy

Extremely challenged child

Profane

Irreverent

Profess

Declare

Proficient

Thoroughly competent

Profligate

Extravagantly wasteful

Profound

Deep

Profuse

Flowing

Proletariat

Industrial working class

Proliferate

Spread rapidly

Prolific

Abundantly productive

Promulgate

Proclaim

Propensity

Natural inclination

Propitious

Marked by favorable signs

Proponent

Advocate

Proprietary

Constituting property