Chapter 7-8 Flashcards by chi Yan lee

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Remonstrance

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Protest

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Superfluous

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Unnecessary , too much

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Demur

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Raise doubt

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Pathos

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Sadness

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Scrounge

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Seek

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Proles

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Working class

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Wainscoting

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Wooden paneling , lower part of the wall

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Salutation

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Greeting

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Allusion

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Call something to mind

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Fretted

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Worried ,anxious

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Reprisal

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Revenge , payback

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Fecundity

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Capable of producing offspring

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Dilapidated

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Ruin, disrepair

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Austere

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Strict

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Hierarchy

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Ppl ranked above the other

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Oligarchy

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A small group having control of a country

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Tacitly

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Understood without being stated

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Supple

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Flexible

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Reverence

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Deep respect

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Forbearance

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Patience , self control

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Desultorily

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Disconnected

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Sententiously

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Self - righteously

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Tribunal

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Court of justice

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Seditious

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Rebellion against a government

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Prevaricate

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Lie

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Posterity

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A group of people in the future

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Prostrated

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Thrown down on the ground

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Timorous

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Nervous fear , lack of confidence

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Penitence

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Feel sorrow for having done wrong

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Bludgeon

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Beat repeatly with heavy object

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Forlorn

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Lonely

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Degradation

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Being degraded

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Abasement

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Degrade

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Taut

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Pulled tight

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Improvisation

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Create without preparation

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Solipsism

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The theory that the self is all that can be known to exist

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Interpose

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Place between one thing and another

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Haggling

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Bargain

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Digression

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Leave the main subject in speech

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Tiddlywinks

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A game

Small plastic are flicked into a central receptacle

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Tinny

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Have a metallic sound