Cather vocab Flashcards by Claire Du

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Ostracize

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To exclude

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Hemorrhage

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A ruptured blood vessel

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Grippe

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A common disease

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Qualms

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An uneasy feeling or pang of conscience

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Compulsory

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Required or mandatory

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Grope

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To feel about with the hands

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Unscrupulous

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Conscienceless or unprincipled

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Falsetto

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An unnaturally high pitched voice

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Lavish

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Using in great amounts

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Incognito

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Having one’s identity sealed

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Suave

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Confident, smooth

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Hypocritical

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Believing in something one does not actually possess

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Putrid

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Foul decay

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Immaterial

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Not important

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Spendthrift

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A person who spends money extravagantly or waste fully

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Inane

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Lacking significance/ void

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Boisterous

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Rough and noisy

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Pedagogic

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Relating to teaching

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Provocative

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Simulating, vexing

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Harrowing

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Extremely disturbing

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Nonchalant

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Coolly unexcited

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Bourgeois

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In the middle class

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Sacrilegious

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The violation of anything sacred