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Chapter 6-9 Vocab Flashcards

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An authoritative warning or order.

Synonyms to Help Me: order, ruling

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Injunction

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Severe or strict in manner, attitude, or appearance.

Synonyms to Help Me: severe, stern

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Austere

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Reducing someone’s judicial punishment to one less severe.

Synonyms to Help Me: Reduce, lessen.

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Commutation

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The state of wishing to do evil things to others.

Synonyms to Help Me: spiteful, malicious, malevolent

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Malignancy

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Provide (a wall of a building) with battlements.

Synonyms to Help Me: Broken, cracked

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Crenellated

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A rail supported by balusters.

Synonyms to Help Me: Handrail, post

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Balustrade

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An architectural structure that separates window and is usually decoratory.

Synonyms to Help Me: crossways

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Mullioned

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Showing good chances of success.

Synonyms to Help Me: favorable, promising

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Propitious

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Move in a smooth, wavelike motion.

Synonyms to Help Me: ripple, flow, roll

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Undulating

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Any of a large order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers that as adults have four broad or lanceolate wings usually covered with minute overlapping and often brightly colored scales and that as larvae are caterpillars.

Synonyms to Help Me: moth, butterfly

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Lepidoptera

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A large single upright block of stone, especially one shaped into or serving as a pillar or monument.

Synonyms to Help Me: standing stone

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Monolith

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Approval or praise.

Synonyms to Help Me: approval, acceptance, endorsement

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Approbation

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A difficult or strenuous task.

Synonyms to Help Me: burdensome, arduous, strenuous, difficult

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Onerous

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The process of taking legal action.

Synonyms to Help Me: legal proceedings, legal action

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Litigation

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Relating the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed.

Synonyms to Help Me: antiquated, archaic, dated

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Neolithic

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Practicing or affecting strict religious or moral behavior.

Synonyms to Help Me: moralistic, puritan, pietistic

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Puritanical

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Attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble.

Synonyms to Help Me: secretive, secret, surreptitious

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Furtive

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Done secretively.

Synonyms to Help Me: secret, covert, furtive

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Clandestine

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Thread or yarn that is tied or knotted.

Synonyms to Help Me: knot, coil, complication

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Skein

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Absolute, complete, without question

Synonyms to Help Me: absolute, unqualified, categorical, complete, total,

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Unmitigated

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