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English Seperate Peace Vocab Ch 1 And 2 > Ch 10-13 > Flashcards

Ch 10-13 Flashcards

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Fortitude

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Courage in pain\ adversity

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Latent

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Present but not visible; existing as potential

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Fervent

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Passionately intense

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Erratic

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Spontaneous, eccentric

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Cogitation

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Deep thought or reflection

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Aesthete

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Someone sensitively appreciate of art and beauty

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Rueful

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Showing slightly humorous sorrow or regret

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Languid

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Slow, lackluster, indifferent

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Animosity & enmity

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Hatred

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Reticent

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Not readily revealing ones thoughts; reserved

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Presage

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Predict or warn

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Reprieve

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Delay in punishment, temporary relief of something bad

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Urbane

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Elegant, polished, suave

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Parry

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Dodge or ward off

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Tedious

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Long, tiresome, causing boredom

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Austerity

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Severity, sternness

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Qualms

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Sudden feeling of doubt, uneasiness, or nausea

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Querulous

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Whining, complaining

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Bellicose

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Aggressive, hostile

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Impervious

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Unable to be injured

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Surmise

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Infer

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Incongruity

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I’ll-fitting, inappropriate

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Incarnate

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Embodied in flesh, human form

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What are some signs that leper’s acting oddly before he mentions his section eight?

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Laughing a lot, and lip twitched

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What did the Latin inscription above the door of the first building say

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Here boys come to be made men

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What does gene say about the idea of funny in war?

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He would be to friendly and would make a mess of the war.

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What does gene say that wars are made by?

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By something inhabitant in the human heart

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According to gene what did other people accomplish by “developing a particular frame of mind”?

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Defending themselves against some enemy which was that hate red that exists in everybody

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What was Mr. Ludsbury’s frame of mind?

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He’s superior and air agent and takes defense

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Quackenbush?

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Strike out at it always and everywhere

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Brinker?

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Careless general resentment against it

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Leper?

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Emerge from a protective cloud of vagueness only to meet it

English Seperate Peace Vocab Ch 1 And 2 (4 decks)

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