Chap 11 Flashcards

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Ambient

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Describes something surrounding you

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Abrogate

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To give up something

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Asperity

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Sharpness of something unpleasant

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Burnish

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To polish something until it is shiny

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Cabal

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A secret group

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Delectable

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Delicious

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Deprecate

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To put something down

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Detritus

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The stuff left over after a destructive process

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Ebullient

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Upbeat/peppy

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Eclectic

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A varied taste for something

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Flaccid

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Limp

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Impecunious

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Having little or no money

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Inexorable

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Unstoppable

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Moribund

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Something that is going out of use

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Necromancer

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Someone who gets supernatural powers from the dead

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Onerous

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Burdensome

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Rife

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Filled up with something like happiness or theft

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Rudiments

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The parts if any subject or discipline that are learned first

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Sequester

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To take ownership from something

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Winnow

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To get rid of something you don’t want