Ch.7-9 Vocab Flashcards
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Mystic; occult
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Cabalistic
2
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Surgical
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Chirurgical
3
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The ready transmission or spread, as of attitude, idea, or emotion from person to person; harmful or undesirable contact or influence
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Contagion
4
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Demeanor; conduct; behavior
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Deportment
5
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Dispirited; feeling or showing profound hopelessness; discouraged
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Despondent
6
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Gradually wasted away; abnormally thin, marked by lack of nutrition or disease
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Emaciated
7
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Knowledge acquired by study or research; learning; scholaring
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Erudition
8
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Dictatorial: urgent; commanding
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Imperious
9
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A person who clings to another person for personal gain; parasite; also a name for a doctor in the 1600’s to cling and feed upon so as to drain
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Leech
10
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A deadly epidemic disease; something harmful or evil
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Pestilence
