Chapter 15 Flashcards by Maggie Pomerenke | Brainscape

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Castigate

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Tongue lashing

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Self abnegate

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Self sacrifice for others

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Recapitulate

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Repeat

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Vegetate

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Boring, no joy in life

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Simulate

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Pretending

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Intimate

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Dropping hints

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Alleviate

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To help

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Commiserate

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Sharing of sorrow, empathy, sympathy

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Vacillate

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Going back and forth

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Nervus

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Nerve

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Energy

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Fuel

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Ergon

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Work

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Erg

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Physics term for work

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Synergism

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When two or more substances work together

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Castigate (verb)

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To punish

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Ab-

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Away

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Nego

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To deny

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Neg-

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No

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Aio

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I say

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Negate

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To deny the truth or existence of

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Caput, capitis

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Head

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Captain

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Head of group

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Capital

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Head city

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Decapitate

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To take someone’s head off

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Capitulum

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Little head, heading

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Vegeto

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To live and grow

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Vegetation

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Passive existence; thick brush

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Simulo

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To copy

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Similis

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Alike

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Dissimulate

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Hide feelings behind opposing feelings

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Dissemble

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To pretend to be opposite and conceal true intentions

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Intimus

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Innermost

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Levis

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Lightweight

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Relieve

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To make light or easy again

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Elevate

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To raise up

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Levitation

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Floating in midair

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Levity

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Lightness, frivolity, flippancy

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Miser

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Wretched

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Con

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Together or with

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Vacillo

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To swing back and forth

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Vacillatory

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See all sides hard time deciding

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Ambivalent

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Conflicting feelings about the same topic

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Oscillate

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Physically swing

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Oscillum

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Swing

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Enervate

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To completely exhaust