5-6 Vocab Flashcards

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Visage

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Face, facial expression

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Apparition

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An unreal figure, a ghost

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Perspicacious

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Wise; insightful; acutely intelligent

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Retrospective

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Looking backward over a period of time

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Aspect

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A part that can be considered or viewed

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Introspective

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Contemplating ones own thoughts and feelings

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Phenomenon

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A fact or event that can be looked at and/or documented

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Diaphanous

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Lightweight and transparent

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Epiphany

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A moment of great insight, revelation

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Sycophant

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A person who flatters, a yes-man

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Adherent

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A follower of a person or idea

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Incoherent

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Not able to be understood; nonsensical

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Inherent

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Existing as a natural part

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Diffuse

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  1. Not concentrated or focused; wordy

2. To spread out or distribute

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Effusive

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Overflowing with words or feelings; gushing

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Profuse

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Plentiful; abundant

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Resolute

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Determined; steadfast

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Dissolute

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Devoted to sensual pleasure; lacking moral restraint

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Insoluble

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  1. Impossible to solve or fix

2. Unable to be dissolved

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Diligent

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Hard-working and careful

21
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Recollect

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To remember; to recall

22
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Sacrilege

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An act against a holy person or place

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Envisage

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To imagine, to conceive of