Vocab 8 Flashcards

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Verb - To frighten someone into doing something, using threats or violence

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Cow

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Adjective - Showing a strong feeling

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Ardent

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Noun - the action of feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong.

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Penitence

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Adjective - able or likely to make mistakes.

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Fallible

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Verb - to cause a change from a solid frozen state to a liquid or soft one, because of an increase in temperature

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Thaw

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Noun - another word for sleepwalking

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Somnambulism

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Noun: a new growth of activity or interest in something, especially art, literature, or music:
Opera is enjoying a long-awaited …………

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renaissance

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Noun: small in numbers or amount, often spread over a large area:
a …….. population/audience
……. vegetation/woodland
a ……… beard
Information coming out of the disaster area is ….

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sparse

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Noun:the act of strongly encouraging or trying to persuade someone to do something:
Despite the ………….. of the union leaders the workers voted to strike.
……………. to.
The book is essentially an ……… to religious tolerance.

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exhortation

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Adjective : not able to see clearly things that are far away /unable to understand a situation or the way actions will affect it in the future:

e.g.
Their ……. refusal to act now will undoubtedly cause problems in the future.

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myopic

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