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0701-0800 Flashcards

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effluvium

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an invisible emanation, especially an offensive exhalation or smell

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alimentary

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of or relating to nourishment or nutrition; furnishing sustenance or maintenance

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waif

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a stray person or animal; something found without an owner and especially by chance

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entrails

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internal parts; the inner workings of something

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foist

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to insert surreptitiously; to pass off as worthy or real

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retrocede

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to go back; recede

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plenipotentiary

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a diplomatic agent invested with full power to transact business

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portage

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the carrying of boats or goods overland or around an obstacle

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moldboard

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a curved iron plate attached above a plowshare to lift and turn the soil

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realpolitik

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politics based on practical and material factors rather than on theoretical or ethical objectives

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wharf

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a structure for ships to moor alongside as they load and unload

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vermilion

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a vivid reddish orange; any of various red pigments

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keen

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a lamentation for the dead uttered in a loud wailing voice

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miscegenation

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a mixture of races, especially marriage or sexual intercourse

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spleen

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feelings of anger or ill will, often suppressed

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hapless

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having no luck; unfortunate

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calumny

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a misrepresentation intended to harm another’s reputation; slander

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umbrage

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a feeling of resentment at some often fancied slight or insult; shady branches of foliage

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pique

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to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff

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physic

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the art or practice of healing disease; a medicinal agent or preparation

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inexpiable

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not capable of being atoned for

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interposition

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the action of a state whereby its sovereignty is placed between its citizens and the federal government

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interpose

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to place in an intervening position; intrude

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anathema

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something intensely disliked; the denunciation of something as accursed

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emolument

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the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites

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diaphoretic

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having the power to increase perspiration; perspiring profusely

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imbroglio

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a violently confused or complicated altercation

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alacrity

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cheerful promptness and readiness

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pabulum

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food, especially nutrients in a state suitable for absorption; intellectual sustenance

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pusillanimous

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lacking courage; marked by contemptible timidity

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svelte

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slender or sleek; smooth in texture, performance or style

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suave

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smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated

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mountebank

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a person who sells quack medicines from a platform; a boastful unscrupulous pretender

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urbane

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notably polite or polished in manner

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deride

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to laugh at or insult contemptuously

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gormless

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lacking intelligence; stupid

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imprimatur

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sanction; a mark of approval or distinction

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meliorism

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the belief that the world tends to improve and that humans can aid its betterment

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cynosure

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north star; one that serves to direct or guide; a center of attention

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oeuvre

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a substantial body of work constituting the lifework of a writer, an artist, or a composer

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gormandize

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to eat gluttonously or ravenously

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cloak

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a distinctive character or role; something that envelops or conceals

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tippet

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a shoulder cape; a short leader used by fly fisherman

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quoit

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a flattened ring of iron or circle of rope used in a throwing game

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trepidation

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a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation; apprehension

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ordinance

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an authoritative decree or direction; a prescribed usage, practice, or ceremony

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hubris

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exaggerated pride or self-confidence

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serviceberry

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the edible fruit of various trees or shrubs of the rose family

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indispose

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to make unfit or averse

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scutum

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a bony, horny, or chitinous plate; scute

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cradleboard

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a board to which American Indians bind a child during the infant stage of growth

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shrike

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gray or brownish oscine birds that have a hooked bill

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gunnel

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a small eel-like bony fish; the upper edge of the side of a boat

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marten

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semiarboreal carnivorous mammals of the weasel family

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pronghorn

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a swift horned ruminant mammal that resembles an antelope

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weasel

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small slender active carnivorous mammals

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scrofula

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tuberculosis of lymph nodes especially in the neck

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willet

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a large shorebird of the sandpiper family

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sprit

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a spar that crosses a fore-and-aft sail diagonally

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spritsail

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a sail extended by a sprit

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avocet

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large long-legged shorebirds with webbed feet and slender upward-curving bill

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alum

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an aluminum sulfate used especially for its astringent and styptic properties

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copperas

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a salt used especially in making inks and for treating anemia caused by iron deficiency

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chit

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a pert young woman; a short letter or note

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discommode

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to cause inconvenience to; to trouble

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sawyer

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one that saws; a sawyer beetle

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muster

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a representative specimen; an act of assembling, especially for a military inspection

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octant

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an instrument for observing altitudes of a celestial body from a moving ship or aircraft

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quinidine

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an alkaloid used to treat cardiac rhythm irregularities

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inestimable

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incapable of being estimated or computed; too valuable to be measured or appreciated

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magpie

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a person who chatters noisily; one who collects indiscriminately; birds related to jays

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rhapsodize

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to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner

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eloquence

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discourse marked by force and persuasiveness

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inveterate

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confirmed in a habit; firmly established by long persistence

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bowline

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a rope used to keep the weather edge of a square sail taut forward

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pathbreaking

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making or pointing a new way; trailblazing

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peritoneum

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membrane that lines the abdomen of a mammal

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ignominious

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deserving of shame or infamy; characterized by disgrace or shame

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adjunct

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something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it

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brant

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a small goose about the size of a mallard with a black head, neck, and chest

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syringa

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any of several usually shrubby plants considered to resemble the orange; lilac

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tanager

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tropical American oscine birds that are often brightly colored

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camas

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plants of the lily family with edible bulbs

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vitiate

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to make faulty or defective; to debase in moral or aesthetic status

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hobble

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to fasten together the legs to prevent straying; to place under handicap

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columbine

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plants of the buttercup family with irregular showy spurred flowers

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trillium

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herbs of the lily family

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scute

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an external bony or horny plate or large scale

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oscine

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passerine birds characterized by a vocal apparatus highly specialized for singing

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passerine

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the largest order of birds, which includes over half of all living birds

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altricial

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being hatched or born in a very immature and helpless condition so as to require care for some time

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precocial

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capable of a high degree of independent activity from birth

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ermine

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weasels whose coats become white in winter

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tubercle

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a small knobby prominence or excrescence especially on a plant or animal

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incommode

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to give inconvenience or distress to; disturb

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disoblige

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to go counter to the wishes of; inconvenience

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alkaloid

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organic bases in seed plants containing nitrogen and usually oxygen, used in medicines

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serous

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of, relating to, or resembling serum, especially of thin watery constitution

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placate

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to soothe or mollify especially by concessions

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cutlass

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a short curving sword formerly used by sailors on warships

Vocab 0701 - 0800 (1 decks)

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