Chapter Vocab Flashcards by Hannah Abney | Brainscape

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Petulant

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Bad tempered

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Debonair

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Elegant or well-bred

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Recrimination

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To accuse someone after they have accused you

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Erstwhile

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Former

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Tribulations

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Cause of great struggle

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Peremptory

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Insisting on immediate attention

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Invalid

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Not valid

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Disingenuously

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Being insincere

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Notorious

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Well known

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Asphyxiate

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Suffocate

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Transfix

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To cause someone to be motionless with horror, wonder, or astonishment

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Fecund

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Fruitless and fertility

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Staunchly

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Well built

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Germinate

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Being grown

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Reticent

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Not revealing ones thoughts or feelings

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Demurred

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To raise doubt

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Deferential

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Respectful

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Acquiesced

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To accept something reluctantly

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Impervious

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Impenetrable

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Magnanimously

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Noble

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Immodest

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Lacking decency

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Akimbo

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With hands on hips and elbows turned outward

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Dire

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Extremely serious

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Incredulous

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Unwilling

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Meddle

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To interfere

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Simpering

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To smile in a silly matter

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Meticulous

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Showing great attention to detail

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Predatory

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Relating to animals praying on others naturally

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Pervasive

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Widely spread

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Leering

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Gazing in a unpleasant way

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Self-effacing

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Modest

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Paragon

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A person or thing viewed as a model of excellence

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Decorum

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Having good taste

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Disillusioned

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Disappointed after discovering something or someone is not what it seemed

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Lamenting

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Grieving

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Disconsolately

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Hopelessly unhappy

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Extol

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Praise enthusiastically

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Magnanimity

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Generosity

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Implacable

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Unable to be placed

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Crescendo

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Music that increasing in volume

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Perspicacity

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Having a ready insight into things

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Lugubrious

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Looking or sounding sad

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Farce

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An absurd event

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Delimited

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Determined the limits of

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Feeble

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Unable to make an intelligent decision

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Quaint

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Attractively unusual or old fashioned

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Dilapidated

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A state of ruin resulting from age or neglect

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Placid

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Not easily upset or excited

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Doleful

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Expressing sorrow

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Vestigial

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A small piece of something once large