9-10 Flashcards

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Avowed

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Acknowledged, declared

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Volatile

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Threatening to break out into violence

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Whetted

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To sharpen

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Cerebral

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Betraying or chacterized by the use of intellect rather then intuition

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Debility

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Weakness, mental

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Incipient

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Beginning to exist or appear

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Disparity

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Lack of similarity or equality

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Ebullition

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A seething or overflowing, as of passion or feeling; outburst

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Ceased

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To stop, discontinue

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Scrutiny

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A searching examination or investigation

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Affecting

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Moving or exciting the feelings or emotions

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Enigma

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A puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation

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Inexplicable

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Not explicable; incapable of being accounted for

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Deride

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To laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff

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Incredulous

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Disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical

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Penitence

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Regret for ones wrongdoing or sinning

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Imperious

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Urgent

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Duplicity

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Speaking two different ways to different people

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Blazoned

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To set forth conspicuously or publicly

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Morbid

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Suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude

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Inveterate

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Settled or confirmed

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Perennial

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Lasting for an indefinitely amount of time

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Multifarious

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Having many different parts, elements, forms

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Incongruous

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Out of keeping or place

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Denizens
An inhabitant; resident
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Infallible
Trustworthy
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Extraneous
Irrelevant
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Faggot
Male homosexual
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Effulgence
A brilliant radiance
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Scruples
A feeling of doubt
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Immaterial
Unimportant
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Tabernacle
Any place or house of God
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Exulting
To show or feel a lively or triumphant joy, rejoice
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Vigilance
Watchfulness
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Repugnance
Strong distaste
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Pious
Having or showing dutiful spirit for God
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Aversion
Dislike
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Unsrupulous
No moral principles
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Excursion
Short trip
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Vicarious
Taking place of another person or thing
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Depravity
Moral corruption
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Inherently
Existing in something as a permanent characteristic
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Maligen
Speak evil about
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Bestial
Of or like an animal
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Avidity
Eagerness
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Insidiously
Intended to entrap
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Connived
To cooperate secretly
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Chastisement
Severe criticism
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Faculties
Mental or physical power
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Compensation
Rewarding someone for service
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Obliterate
To remove or destroy
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Insensate
Without human feeling
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Unbridled
Uncontrolled
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Provocation
Irritates
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Iniquity
Unfair behavior
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Buttressed
Provide a building with projecting supports built against its walls
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Capacious
Capable of holding a lot
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Penitence
Regret for wrong doing
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Succumbed
To give away to superior force; yield
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Farrago
A confused mixture, medley