Ch 3 Definitions Flashcards

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To turn away, to make indifferent or hostile, to transfer, to convey

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Alienate

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A skillful or ingenious device; a clever trick, trickery

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Artifice

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3
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To compel, force

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Coerce

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Cowardly; a coward

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Craven

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5
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Of or related to cooking or the kitchen

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Culinary

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A death, especially of a person in a lofty position

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Demise

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To enliven, cheer, give spirit or liveliness to

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Exhilarate

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Plowed but not seeded, inactive, reddish-yellow; land left unseeded, to plow but not seed

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Fallow

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An enemy, opponent

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Adversary

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To disturb, worry, to trouble by repeated attacks

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Harass

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Stormy, harsh; severe in attitude or action

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Inclement

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To pay a debt, settle an account, to eliminate

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Liquidate

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To think about in a dreamy way, ponder

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Muse

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14
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So unimportant that it can be disregarded

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Negligible

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To make permanent or long lasting

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Perpetuate

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An example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action

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Precedent

17
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Inflicting or aiming at punishment

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Punitive

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To set right, remedy; relief from wrong or injury

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Redress

19
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A temporary stay, to stay for a time

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Sojourn

20
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Refined in manner or style, suave

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Urbane