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Chapter 8-17 Vocab Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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Trick/Lying

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Treachery

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Holy

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Sanctity

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Lacking in movement

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Stagnant

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something you HAVE to do

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obligatory

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not harmful

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innocuous

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capable of catching fire/ speech/ trying to fire people up

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incendiary

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having a rank smell/ taste/ decomposition/ spoiled milk

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rancid

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refusal to comply with or accept something

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Resistance

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indulgent of your own appetites and desires;marked by excessive
self-indulgence and moral decay

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Decadent

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10
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looking down on someone

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Condescending

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you alone don’t dislike it; a whole community of like-minded souls has to
dislike it

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Revile

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aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery; fearless daring

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Audacity

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a very small difference in color, meaning, or feeling

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Nuance

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Grave or gloomy in character

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Somber

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associate or form a friendship with someone, especially when one is not supposed to.

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Fraternize

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lacking restraint in spending money or using resources.

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Extravagant

17
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in a way that attempts to avoid notice or attention; secretively.

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Furtively

18
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address (someone) in such a way as to express disapproval or disappointment. or the expression of disapproval or disappointment.

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Reproach

19
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incapable of being fully explored or understood.

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Unfathomable

20
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friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to.

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Affable

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not securely held or in position; dangerously likely to fall or collapse.

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Precarious

22
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providing moral or intellectual instruction.

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Edifying

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a descendant or the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring.

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Progeny

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inspire or permeate with (a feeling or quality).

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Imbue

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