11-13-12 Vocab Flashcards by Jenny Scott

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draconian

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Hard, severe, cruel

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resurgent

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A rise after defeat

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artisan

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A worker skilled in a craft

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astute

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Quick in discernment; shrewd, clever, keen

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misnomer

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An incorrect or inappropriate name

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veer

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Change in direction

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karma

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Fate, destiny, to detect good or bad vibrations from something or someone

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curvilinear

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Formed, bound, or characterized by curved lines

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elapse

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To pass or go by (said of time)

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defame

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To libel or slander; take away a good name

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Amenable

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Agreeable, responsible to authority, pleasant

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Precarious

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Unsafe unsteady unstable

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Criterion

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Rule by which something can be judged

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Guise

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Appearance semblance

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Dissolution

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Breaking up into parts

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Forage

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Search hunt for food

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Fetish

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Unreasonable obsessive reverence or attention

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Disperse

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Scatter in various directions

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Lesion

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Wound injury, disease

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Gird

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Belt