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8/24/2023 words Flashcards

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Pervaded

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to spread throughout all parts; permeate, suffuse, invade

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irratonally

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In a illogical or unreasonable manner

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Comprehend

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understand something completely

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Assimilate

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take in Information, ideas or culture and understand fully

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Jarred

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send a painful or damaging shock; jolt, jerk, shake

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Distended

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swollen due to pressure from inside; amplify, dilate, inflate

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Infer

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conclude information from evidence or reasoning; deduce, conjecture, therorize

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Emanate

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express your feelings from the way you look and/or behave

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Bellicose

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showing an intention to argue

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Vulnerable

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Able to easily physically or mentally hurt, influence, or attacked; endangered, perilous, at risk

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Abominable

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very bad or unpleasant; detestable, obnoxious, hateful

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Plight

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a dangerous difficult and/or unfortunate situation; predicament, dillema, crisis

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Laud

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praise a person for their acheivements; acclaim, admire, applaud

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Avid

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having or showing keen interest or enthusiasm for something; dedicated, ardent

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Redress

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fix a problem; amend, rectify, remedy, ameliorate

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Integral

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nessesary and important part of a whole

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Yalled

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when a group of people think they are good at something when they are actually bad

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Inadvertently

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not focus the mind on matter; unwillingly, fortuitously, capriously, whimsically

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Exuberance

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The quality of being full of energy, exitement

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Contagious

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capable of being transmitted by content with an infected person or an object; pandemic

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Atrophied

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reduce in size, strength; to become weaker

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Trepidation

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a feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen

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Fallible

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capable of making mistakes; imperfect, flawed, faulty, erroneuous

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Assuaged

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make an unplesant feeling less intense| to satisfy; mitigate, alleviate, appease, satiate

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invigorating

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give strength or energy; revive, simulate, strenghthen

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Snide

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mocking in an indirect way; scorn, taunting, jeering

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Imploringly

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in a way that expresses urgent or piteous pleading; eagerly, earnestly, frantically, hastily, beg, pray

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Admonition

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an authorative counsel or warning; reprimand, rebuke, stricture, guidance

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reminisce

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talk or write about past experiences that you remember with pleasure; recall, think back, recollect, exchange memories

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incident

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an event of occurrence; occasion, proceeding, exploit, feat, cirumstances

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Gripe

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complain about something in a persistently annoying way; nag, whine, groan,

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Eminence

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fame or recognized superiority; distiction, renown, prestige, repute, stature,

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Cleft

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split,divide or part something

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Sanguine

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optimistic or positive especially in a bad or difficult situation; bullish

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Verbose

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using more words than needed; garrulous

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Wraithlike

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lacking in material or substance

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Durable

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able to withstand: pressure or damage; resistant, sturdy, long lasting

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Judiciously

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with good judgement or sense; justly, aptly, wisely

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Perception

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the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through senses

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excruciating

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intensely painful; acute, agonizing, savage

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Peril

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serious immediate danger; jeopardy, hazard, menace, threat

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Audacious

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showing willingness to take suprisingly bold risks; bold, intrepid, valiant

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Dubiously

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with hesistation or doubt

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Pincusion

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a small soft object into which pins may be kept safely

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Quiver

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a storage for arrows

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Capricious

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given sudden changes of mood and behavior; fickle, variable, inconstant

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Condensed

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reduce to a more compact dense form; compressed

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Contempt

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a feeling that a person is below consideration and not deserving anything

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Melodious

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having a plesantly flowing quality of music; sweet, musical, tuneful

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Conspicuous

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standing out so as to be clearly visible; distinct

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Reprimand

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public or formal expression of disapproval; rebuke

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Philanthorpy

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giving away money to organizations

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Winsome

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attractive

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Fowl

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a type of bird

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Inexorable

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impossible to stop or prevent

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