5 The Week Flashcards

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Flagrant

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outrageous, glaringly bad

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Admonish

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To warn, to reprove

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Duress

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compulsion, force

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4
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Culprit

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To guilty person

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5
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Inexorable

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Inflexible, unrelenting

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6
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egregious

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remarkably bad

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distraught

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Mentally confused, crazed, really upset

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Duplicity

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cunning, trickery

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9
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acrimonious

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Bitter

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10
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Paucity

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scarcity

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elicit

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to draw fourth

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12
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pernicious

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harmful, causing injury

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13
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tolerate

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to put up with, to bear

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construe

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To make deduction, to infer

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15
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Impunity

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Freedom from punishment/ acting like you do

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Rampant

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Going unchecked, widespread

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Insane

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Foolish

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ethics

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code of principles

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concur

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Agree

20
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clandestine

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Secret, undercover

21
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illicit

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illegal