Test 10 LA Vocab
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| Megalomania | Desire for money
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| Profligate | Wasteful
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| Strife | Argument, Dissagrement
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| Legion | A large number
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| Coup | Revolution
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| To Play Possum | To try to fool someone`
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| Amnesty | General Pardon
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| Expatriate | An Exile
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| Exonerate | To free from guilt
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| Fiat | An official order
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| Mendacious | Lying
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| Idiom: It's an ill wind that blows nobody good | Someone who benefits from others misfortune
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| Parcimonious | Someone who hoards money
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| Pecuniary | Financial
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| Dismantle | Take Apart
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| Sumptuous | Lavish
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| Underwrite | Agree to finance
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| Idiom: To know the ropes | To be fully acquainted with the procedures
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| Restrictive | Confining
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| Balk | To refuse to move
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| Blunt | Plain Spoken
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| Nostalgia | Yearning for the past
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| Rife | Widespread
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| Idiom: Behind the eight ball | In trouble
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| Reviled | Scolded
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| Derogatory | Making fun of
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| Indict | Accuse
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| Nebulous | Unclear, Vague
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| Pesky | Annoying
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| Idiom: Left Holding the Bag | To be left to suffer the blame
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| Redolent | Fragrant
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| Repose | State of rest
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| Omnivorous | Eating any kind of food
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| Disparate | Different
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| Abstemious | Moderate in eating or drinking
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| Idiom: A lick and a promise | To do something in a hasty and superficial manner.
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