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CLFC-6

  1. bonhomie
    • good natured friendliness
    • easy to talk to
  2. affability
    • easy to talk to 
    • amiability, amiableness
  3. geniality
    easy to talk to 
  4. bowdlerize
    to remove passages considered offensive 
  5. expurgate
    to remove passages considered offensive 
  6. purge
    act of removing by cleaning
  7. brackish
    somewhat salty, saline
  8. acrid
    unpleasantly bitter or pungent
  9. pungent
    acrid taste
  10. briny
    slightly salty
  11. braggadocio
    boastful or arrogant behaviour
  12. braggart
    boastful or talkative person
  13. pretentious
    attempting to impress
  14. haughtiness
    arrogantly superior and disdainful
  15. hubris
    excessive pride or self-confidence
  16. imperiousness
    arrogant
  17. cadence
    rise and fall of the voice in speaking
  18. inflection
    the modulation and intonation of pitch
  19. callow
    • immature
    • young andwithout experience
  20. naive
    lacking experience
  21. jejune
    lack of maturity
  22. sophomore
    a second year undergraduate
  23. calumny
    false and defamatory statements
  24. aspersion
    false and defamatory statements
  25. slander
    charge falsely
  26. scurrility
    foul-mouthed
  27. canard
    deliberately misleading story
  28. deception
    act of deceiving
  29. dissimulation
    the act of deceiving
  30. fabrication
    a deleberately false or improbable account
Author
sjs.vikrant
ID
181999
Card Set
CLFC-6
Description
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