Across five Aprils vocab ch5-8 Flashcards

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A group or collection, a very large one

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Passel

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To overcome with shock or dismay

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Appalled

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To make cheerful, Mary, or lively; to invigorate or stimulate

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Exhilarated

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That cannot be avoided or evaded; certain to happen

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Inevitably

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Uncertain; insecure; not secure well

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Precariously

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Having the quality of decision; showing determination or firmness

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Decisive

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Something said or done to inspire confidence; as a promise, positive statement; guarantee

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Assurance

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To drive completely away; disappear

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Dissipate

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A northerner synthesizes with the South at the time of the Civil War: so-called in the north

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Copperhead

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Hard to see or perceive: attracting little attention

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Inconspicoius

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Having or showing a clever or crude mind: cut; crafty; wily

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Astute

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Cutting or sarcastic in utterance; biting

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Caustically

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Ground or tractive ground; with regard to it’s natural or Toponga full features or fitness for some use

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Terrain

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Extreme disgust, shock, or repugnance feeling of great loathing

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Revulsion

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To struggle awkwardly to move, as in deep mud or snow

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Floundered

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Increasingly intensity of sounds by sympathetic vibration

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Resonance

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Expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful or sad

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Plaintive

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A wet, boggy ground yielding underfoot

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Quagmire

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A final offer or demand by one of the parties in a negotiation

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Ultimatum

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Calm, serene, peaceful; free from disturbance

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Tranquil

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Scattered, to scatter about

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Dissipate

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Hoarse, rough sounding

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Raucous

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Easily cheated or tricked

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Gullibility

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A feeling of embarrassment and annoyance because one has failed urban disappointed

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Chagrin

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A person accused of a crime or offense

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Culprit

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Active ill will; desire to harm another or do mischief

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Malice

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Uprightness of character; honest

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Integrity

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Any expression of approval or praise

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Plaudits

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Persistent; stubborn

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Tenacious

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Awkward or incompetent; not suitable

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Inept

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To fall or drop straight downward; plunge

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Plummeted

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Not well known; not famous

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Obscurity

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To advise against

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Dissuaded