#6 Flashcards

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Degenerate

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Having low morals or to decline in quality

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Debonair

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Dealing and acting in an appealing and sophisticated way

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Demeanor

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Persons appearance and behavior

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Dermatologist

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Scientific study of skin and it’s diseases

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Desirable

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Worth wanting or giving

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Detente

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Relaxation of strained relations or tensions between nations

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Discrepancy

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Difference especially between things that should be the same

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Dissociate

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To separate from something or someone

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Distraught

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Very upset

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Double think

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Power to hold two contradictory beliefs in ones mind simultaneously and accept both

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Dyslexia

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Medical condition in a break that makes it hard for a person to read, right, or spell

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Dyspeptic

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Pain in an area in your stomach caused by to being able to digest food

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Echelon

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Level in an organization; rank or class

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Ecology

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Study of living things and it’s relations with each other and 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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Slowly break apart and destroy through a chemical process

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Exploitation

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Act of using something or someone in a way that is unfair

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Glib

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Said or done too easily or carefully

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Indiscriminately

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In a way that is not marked by

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Legacy

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Something that is well known from the past

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Repudiate

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To refuse to accept or support

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Synthesis

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Something that is made by combining different things

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Tacitly

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Expressed or understood with out being directly stated

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Interpose

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To place between 2 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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To habe treated people in a cruel or unfair way

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Sundry

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Made up of different things

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Languish

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To become weak or feeble

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Anarchy

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Complete absence of government

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Facilitate

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To make easier