Chapter one Flashcards by Elizabeth tlacuatl | Brainscape

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Ephemeral

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Short lived

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Edible

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Digestible

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Incoherent

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Unintelligible

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Acute

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Sharp

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Raffish

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Tawdry

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Mulct

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Defraud

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Kvetch

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Complain

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Philomath

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Scholars

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Debouching

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Emerge

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Benison

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Curse

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Subsume

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Include

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Consensus

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Accord

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Altercation

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Quarrel like disagreement

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Irresolute

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Wavering/ hesitate between choices

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Laconic

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Concise / express in few words

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Conciliatory

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To preserve or obtain peace

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Precedent

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Like example

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Diaphanous

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Transparent

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Indolent

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Lazy

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Incidental

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Casual

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Succumb

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Cease/ to resist

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Notorious

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Like infamous

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Unanimity

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Like concurrence

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Pert

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Saucy

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Aesthetic

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Good taste / beautiful

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Decimation

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To kill

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Indignant

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Angry

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Cliche

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Platitude

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Harmony

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Agreement/ among people, thoughts, ideas

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Feasible

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Practicable

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Versatile

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Many-sided

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Imperturbability

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Calmness / serenity

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Strident

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Irritating / unpleasantness