All things fall apart vocab Flashcards

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Wily

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adj; skilled at gaining on advantage, deceitful

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improvident

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adj; not having or showing foresight, thoughtless

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callow

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adj; inexperienced and immature (a young person)

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atone

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noun; reparation for any wrongdoing

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Voluble

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adj; characterized by fluency and readiness of utterance

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haggard

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adj; looking exhausted and unwell, from fatigue, worry, or suffering

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Impending

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verb; be about to happen

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Incipient

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adj; developing into a specified type a role

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arduous

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adj; involving or requiring strenuous effort, difficult and tiring

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perpetuate

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verb; typically an undesirable situation or and unfounded belief

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harbinger

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noun; a person or thing that announces or signals, the approach of another

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enthrall

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verb; capture the fascinated attention of

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expedient

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noun; meaning of attaining in the end, which is the immoral

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Desolate

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Deserted of people, and in a state of bleak, dismal emptiness

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Resolute

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adj admirably, purposeful, determined, unwavering

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