401-450 Flashcards by Sumbal Zaheer | Brainscape

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Penance

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Atonement for sin

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Ascetic

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One who practices self denial

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Desultory

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Disconnected

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Disciples

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Followers

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Metamorphosis

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Change

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Bona Fife

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Genuine

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Salvation

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Deliverance from ruin

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Materialism

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Attention to worldly things

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Nurture

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To nourish

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Nirvana

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Freedom from care and pain

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Juxtapose

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To place side by side

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Plight

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Dangerous situation

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Covert

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Secret, hidden

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Cope

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To be able to handle

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Incompatibility

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Lack of harmony

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Incapacitated

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Made unfit

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Fabricate

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To lie, to construct a story

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Connubial

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Related to marriage

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Demur

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To object

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Appellation

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A name

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Escalation

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Increase

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Indifference

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Lack of concern

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Potential

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Possible

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Cumulative

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Accumulated

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Recondite

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Hidden

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Heterogenous

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Dissimilar

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Gamut

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Range

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Perspicacious

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Acutely perceptive, shrewd

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Analogous

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Comparable, similar

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Maladjusted

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Poorly adjusted

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Phenomenon

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Unusual occurrence

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Mortality

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Death

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Decade

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Ten years

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Susceptible

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Easily affected

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Neurotic

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Suffering from a nervous disorder

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Pedagogue

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Teacher

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Enunciate

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To utter

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Inordinate

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Excessive

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Irascible

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Irritable

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Introspective

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Looking into one’s own feelings

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Perpetuate

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To cause to continue

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Mandate

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An authoritative order

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Compensatory

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Serving to pay back

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Neutralise

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To counter act

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Catastrophic

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Disastrous

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Anthropologists

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An expert in the study of races and cultures

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Artifact

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An object made by hand

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Bizarre

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Odd, peculiar

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Fetish

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An object that is thought to have magical powers

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Inanimate

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Lifeless