Chapter 5&6 Flashcards

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catholic

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Universal, wide-ranging

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Catalyst

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A person, thing, or agent thats speeds up or stimulates a result or change

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Cavort

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To leap about in a springingly manner, romp

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Chafe

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To irritate as if by friction or by rubbing

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Charisma

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Great appeal or attraction for others

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Chauvinish

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One who has a fanatical devotion to a country, sex, or religion which contemp for other countries, the opposite sex, or other beliefs

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Chicanery

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Trickery; the use of clever but trickery talk to deceive or allude

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Choleric

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Easily angered

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Dally

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To waste time; dawdle

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Dastardly

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Mean and cowardly

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Daub

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To paint coarsely or unskillful

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Daunt

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To make afraid or discouraged

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Dawdle

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to waste time

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Debonair

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Carefree and self-confident in manner; elegant and gracious

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Decadence

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Moral deterioration

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Declaim

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To speak in a dramatic, pompous, or blustering manner

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Defunct

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No longer in existence

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Deify

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To make God of; to look on or worship as a God

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Delete

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To take it out ;Crossout

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Delude

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To mislead;to fool