1-2 Vocab Flashcards
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abatement
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amount deducted
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abate
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make less
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abstinence
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act of doing without pleasure
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accord
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agreement
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adder
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poisonous snake
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affection
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fond or tender feeling
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allegiance
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loyalty to a person or cause
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altitude
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height
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apparition
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strange figure that arrives unexpectedly especially a ghost
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apprehension
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understanding anxious feeling of foreboding
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arraign
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call to account accuse
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assail
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attack with arguments
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asuneder
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into parts or pieces
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audit
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account or record
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auspicious
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looking to a happy futute
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awry
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away from the correct course
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base
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inferior valueless
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battalion
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large group joined together
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battery
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act of beating or pounding
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beget
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bring into being
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beguile
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decieve
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beseech
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ask earnestly implore beg
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besmirch
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make dirty bring dishonor to
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bier
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platform for a courpse
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blank verse
unrhymed verse having five iambic feet typical of elizabethan drama
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boisterous
noisy unruly
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bough
branch of a tree
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bray
make a large harsh cry like a donkey
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brazen
made of brass
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brevity
quality of being concise
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calumnious
slanderous
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capital
extremely serious calling for the death penalty
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carouse
engage in boisterous drinking and merrymaking
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celestial
heavenly
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censure
disapproval
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chalice
cup for holy wine
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chaste
pure
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churlish
stingy mean
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clamor
loud outcry uproar
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cleave
divide or split
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clemency
forbearance leniency mercy
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commendable
praise worthy
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commision
authorizaton
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compost
decomposing vegetables used for fertilizer
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condole
express sympathy
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confine
bordered region
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consummation
completion fulfillment
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contagion
agent causing the disease or spreading the disease
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coronation
ceremony in which a sovereign is crowned
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countenance
facial expression
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countenance
condone give approval to
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courtier
attendant at a royal court
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dalliance
playing at love
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dally
waste time loiter
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devoutly
earnestly sincere
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dire
having dreadful consequences
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dirge
funeral hymn
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discretion
good judgment care to behave properly
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disposition
ones nature or temperament inclination desire
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distemper
disturbance
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distilled
reduced
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distraction
confusion diversion
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dowry
property that a woman brings to her marriage
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eloquent
vividly expressive persuasive
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enmity
hostility
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entreat
ask ernestly plead beg
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entreaty
begging favors
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epitaph
inscription on a grave stone
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exhort
urge by strong argument make urgent appeal
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expend
spend use up
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expostulate
reason without or about
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extort
to get something by some with violence or threat
