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Chapter 5 Flashcards

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Unscrupulous

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Showing no moral principle

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Appropriate

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Take something for one use typically without others permission

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Posthumous

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Occurring, awarded or appearing after the death of the originator

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Overt

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Done or shown openly

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Unbridled

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Uncontrolled or unrestrained

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Blasé

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Unimpressed or indifferent to something because one has because one has experienced or seen it often before

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Cavalier

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Showing lack of concern

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Torpedo

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Destroy or ruin

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Seemly

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Decorous

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Untoward

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Inappropriate, inconvenient, unexpected

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Torrid

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Hot and dry

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Antedate

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Precede in time

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Sclerotic

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Rigid and unresponsive

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Ossify

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Seize developing

Be standard or rigid

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Bastardization

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Corrupt or debase

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Marginalized

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Treat as insignificant or peripheral

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Cynicism

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Whether something will happen or whether it is worthwhile

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Herald

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A sign that something is about to happen

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Clairvoyant

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A person who claims to have supernatural ability to predict the future

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Nary

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Informal or not

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Inkling

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A slight knowledge or an hint

22
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Presentiment

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Feeling about the future

Foreboding

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Machiavellian

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Cunning, scheming and unscrupulous

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Subterfuge

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Deceit used in order to achieve ones goal

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Onslaught

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A fierce or destructive attack

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Inexorably

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Impossible to stop or prevent

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Incorrigible

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Not able to be corrected, improved or informed

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Illusory

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Not real

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Unbedizened

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Gaudy or showy

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Denizen

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A citizen or an occupant of a place

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