Junior- Week 11 Vocabulary Flashcard

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showing or suggesting that future success is likely

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auspicious

Front

having or showing a tendency to argue or fight

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bellicose

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ability to discern or discriminate; shrewdness

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acumen

Front

This is one of those dishes for which simplicity _______its beauty and flavor.

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belies

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(n.) indirect and wordy language

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circumlocution

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To proceed completely around, to go around, circumvent.

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Circumnavigate

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Shedding or losing foliage at the end of the growing season.

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Deciduous

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Having a harmful effect; injurious.

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Deleterious

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A lifetime of working in dreary jobs had ______________ his very soul.

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enervated

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lacking self-confidence; timid

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diffident