Chapter 6-10 Flashcards
1
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swilling
A
drinking greedily or grossly
2
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strutting
A
walking with head up high, chest out, expecting to impress others
3
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cretin
A
a mentally defective person
4
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deficiency
A
lack; incompleteness; insufficiency
5
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perspective
A
viewpoint; visible scene; vista
6
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trajectory
A
path of a body moving in space
7
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converging
A
meeting at a point
8
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swaggering
A
walking in a defiant manner
9
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nanosecond
A
one billionth of a second
10
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evasive
A
elusive; trying to avoid doing something
11
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confrontation
A
face to face conflict
12
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albino
A
a person or animal having a congenital absence of pigment in the skin and hair (which are white) and the eyes
13
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vegetate
A
to do nothing; be unthinking
14
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archetype
A
model or first form; prototype
15
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microsurgery
A
delicate surgery performed under magnification
