2-6 Flashcards by Sarah Longfellow

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Alienate

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To make hostile or unfriendly, estranged

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Abstain

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To refrain, keep oneself from

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Assess

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To estimate; to impose a tax, fine, or payment

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Assimilate

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To absorb, incorporate, make or become like

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Cajole

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To coax or wheedle, persuade by flattery

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Concede

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To admit, yield, grant

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Condescend

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To come down to another’s level, deign

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Deprecate

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To disapprove, protest against

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Dissipate

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To dispel, waste, live dissolutely

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Elicit

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To draw forth

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Emancipate

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To make very lean

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Exasperate

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To irritate thoroughly, infuriate

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Altercation

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An angry dispute or quarrel

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Anguish

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Intense suffering

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Apparition

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Specter or phantom, suddenly appearing

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Barrage

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A shower of artillery fire, a heavy onslaught

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Clairvoyant

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One who has unusual or preternatural insight

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Duplicity

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Double dealing, deception

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Facade

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A front, face

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Holicaust

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Widespread destruction, esp. by fire