#6 Flashcards

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Degenerate

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To decline in quality

Low moral standards

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Debonair

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Dressing and acting in a appealing and sophisticated way

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Demeanor

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A persons behavior or appearance

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Dermatologist

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A scientific study of the skin and diseases

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Desirable

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Having good or pleasing quality: worth having or getting

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Detente

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The relaxation of strained relations or tensions

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Discrepancy

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A difference especially between things that should be the same

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Dissociate

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To separate from others

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Distraught

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Very upset

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Double-think

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The power to hold two contradictory beliefs in ones mind and to accept both

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Dyslexia

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A condition in the brain that makes it hard for a person to read, writ end spell

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Dyspeptic

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Pain in an area or of your stomach caused by a difficulty in digesting food

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Echelon

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Levels of rank or order

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Ecology

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Deals with the relationships between groups of living things and their environment

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Ecumenical

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Involving people from different kinds of Christian churches

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Corrode

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To slowly break apart and destroy through a chemical process

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Exploitation

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The act of using someone or something in away that helps you unfairly

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Glib

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Said or done too easily or carelessly

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Indiscriminately

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Affecting or harming many people or things on careless or unfair way

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Legacy

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Something that comes from the past that happens in the past

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Repudiate

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To say or show something that is not true

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Synthesis

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Something made by combining different things

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Tacitly

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Expressed or understood without being directly stated

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Interpose

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A place between two or more things or people

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Intimate

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To say or suggest in an indirect way

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Oppressed

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Treat in an unfair or cruel way

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Sundry

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To make up of different things

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Languish

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to continue for a long time without activity or progress in an unpleasant or unwanted situation

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Anarchy

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Complete absences of government

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Facilitate

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To make easier