Chapters 1-7 Flashcards

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Dreamily, wistfully, thoughtfully

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Pensiveness

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1
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Dignified behavior, speech, dress

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Decorum

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2
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Line

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Queue

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3
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A gas used to sedate patients for surgical procedures

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Chloroform

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4
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Briefly, forcefully, meaningfully

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Pithily

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5
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Searching for food/drink

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Foraging

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6
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Using few words;expressing much in a few words

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Laconically

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7
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A fit, an angry outburst

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Apoplexy

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8
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The top of a wall or structure

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Parapet

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9
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A blessing

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Benediction

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10
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In a dazed state, often associated with too much drink

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Stupor

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11
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Formal rejection of something

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Renunciation

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12
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Rot

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Putrefaction

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13
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Impoverished, poor, needy

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Indigent

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14
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Pale yellowish cast to the skin, unhealthy hue to the skin

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Sallow

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15
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Dog or base person

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Cur

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16
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Suddenly done without thought

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Precipitously

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17
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An interrogator, one who questions harshly

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Inquisitor

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18
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Strict disciplinarians

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Martinets

19
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Party, celebration

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Fete

20
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Where nuns live isolated from society

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Cloister

21
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Small battle

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Skirmish

22
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Unsettled by something; disturbed;to lose ones composure

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Disconcerted

23
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Spotted, blotchy

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Mottled

24
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Displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner

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Contemptously

25
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Attraction, seduction

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Allurement

26
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Excluded from the group

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Ostracized

27
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Hearty, enthusiastic enjoyment of food and or drink; to speak with enthusiasm

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Gusto

28
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Taxes

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Levies

29
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Comfort

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Solace

30
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Hypothesis; guess

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Conjecture

31
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A sharp or bitter odor or taste; pungent

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Acrid

32
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Fear of confined spaces

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Claustrophobia

33
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Incapable of being satisfied

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Insatiable

34
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Struck dumb; amazed by something; unable to speak

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Stupefied

35
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Tame

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Docile

36
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Morally low; without estimable personal qualities; dishonorable

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Baseness

37
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Stale; unmoving; stuck in one place

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Stagnant

38
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Bathrooms

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Latrines

39
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Person who has ambitions to achieve something or become something

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Aspirants

40
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Crazy quest; from Don Quixote

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Quixotic

41
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Without harm or injury

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Unscathed

42
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Severe, sometimes unstoppable bleeding

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Hemorrhages

43
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Put up in; a civilian house used to lodge soldiers

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Billeted

44
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A blob or mass of something

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Dollop