Ap English Language pt. 3 Flashcards

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Benign

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Kindly, gentle, or harmless

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Accolade

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Praise, distinction

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Carnivorous

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Meat-eating

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Deflation

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Decrease, depreciation

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Embezzle

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To steal money in violation of a trust

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Fetter

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To bind, chain, confine

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Gluttony

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Eating and drinking to excess (to much)

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Heighten

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To raise

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Impeccable

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Flawless, without fault

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Legible

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Readable

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Invalid

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A chronically I’ll or disabled person

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Sullenly

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Gloomy or sadly

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Mournful

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Feeling or expressing grief

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Infallibility

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The state of being incapable to fail

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Blight

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A disease or something that withers hopes or impairs growth

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Doggedness

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Stubborn, not yielding

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Reiterate

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To stay over again; repeat

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Naught

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Nothing

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Vermilion

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A vivid red to reddish orange color

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Iridescent

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Producing bright rainbow like-colors

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Martyr

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Person dying for his or her belief

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Notoriety

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Unfavorable fame

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Pedantic

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Ostentatious in one’s learning; overly concerned with minute details or formalisms

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Parch

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To dry or shrivel

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Regress

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To move backwards; revert to an earlier form or state

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Savant

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Learned person; genius

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Tenuous

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Weak, insubstantial

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Utopia

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Perfect place

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Vindicate

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To clear of blame; support a claim

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Withdraw

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Draw back, take out; person who is timid

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Buoyancy

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The tendency to remain afloat in a liquid

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Burgeon

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To begin to grow, sprout, flourish

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Evanesce

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To disappear gradually; fade away; vanish

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Prod

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To jab or poke

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Shrivel

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To shrink and wrinkle

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Glisten

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To shine with reflected light

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Heresy

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An opinion or doctrine that is different from established religions beliefs

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Precariously

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Dangerously lacking in stability

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Tremendous

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Extremely large; enormous

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Loll

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To recline lazily; to hang laxly