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Cloud Atlas Flashcards

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Parvenu

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Nouveau riche, upstart

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Heathen

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Pagan (not Christian, Jewish or Muslim); uncivilised, uncultured

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Creed

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System, doctrine

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Ostracise

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Exclude from society, banish, expatriate

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Surf

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Foam of a wave as it hits the shore

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Diaphanous

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Delicately hazy

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Quilt

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Soft, stiched covering for the bed

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Nebulous

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Hazy, vague, indistinct; cloudy/ cloudlike

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Dwindle

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to become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away

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Bosky

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Shady, of dubious character, full of shades or bushes

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Sylvan

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Related to the woods; living in the woods; made of trees; person living in the woods; mystical deity from the woods

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Condign

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Well-deserved, merited, fitting

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Retribution

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Requital according to merits or deserts; especially for evil

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Subsist

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Exist, remain alive: on food, resources

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Mercurial

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Changeable, volatile, fickle

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Squall

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A sudden gust of wind, usually accompanied by sleet, snow or rain

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Evince

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Make evident, show clearly, manifest

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Spirit foreshadowing one’s death

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Wraith

19
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Wand used by a music conductor

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Baton

20
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Assist, support; further, advance as aims

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Second

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Active, nimble, agile

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Spry

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Careful, cautious, prudent

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Canny

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excessively proper; affectedly correct; prim.

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Prissy

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Quick, sharp response in speech or action

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Ripost

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Clamour or outcry; clamorous or vigorous attempt to win customers or advance any cause; blatant publicity

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Ballyhoo (ing) (ed)

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Keep away from

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Eschew

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Bewilder, confound, confuse

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Flummox

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Entailing great expense and exquisite work, lavish, luxurious

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Sumptuous

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Steal in small quantities of little value (an ashtray from a restaurant)

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Filch, pilfer

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Unyielding, unalterable

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Inexorable

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Sorrowful

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Doleful

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Not affected by outside influence or power; isolated; airtight

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Hermetic

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Luckless, unfortunate

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Hapless

34
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Suitable, well adapted, pertinent

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Apposite

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Noun of conveying

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Conveyance

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Stictly required by etiquette, usage or fashion

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De rigueur

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Smooth uninterrupted transition from one thing to another (+verb)

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Segue

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Clandestine, private publishing of censored works

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Samizdat

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