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common lit vocabulary Flashcards

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Impressionable

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Easily-Led, Persuadable

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Conventional

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Normal, Ordinary

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Domestic

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Family, Home

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Raffia

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The fiber from the raffia leaves, using for making items such as hats, baskets, and mats

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Patronize

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Condescending, look down on

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Incomprehensible

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Unclear, Baffling

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Rudyard Kipling

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English novelist, short-story writer, poet and journalist whose work was inspired by British India, where he was born.

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Authenticity

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Genuine, Original

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Fleece

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Dishonestly take money

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Aject

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Hopeless, Miserable

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Dispossess

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Deprivation, Privation

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Ration

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Amount, Quantity

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Stereotype

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Unfair or untrue belief about someone or something directed reading inventory.

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Nolly-wood

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Familiar name that refers to the Nigerian film industry

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Innovative

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New, Original

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Refurbishing

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Renovate, Redecorate

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Malign

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Evil, Wicked

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Shirley Temple

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American singer, dancer, actress, american sweetheart

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Mission District

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Most of the- moment Neighborhoods, packed with trend-setting boutiques, restaurants, shops

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Peter Pan

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( something to do with a coif) peter pan is a financial character, who is a free- spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grow up, he spends his night never-ending childhood having adventures on the mythical island of never-land as the leader of the lost boys.

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Indignity

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Shame, Embarrassment

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Reproach

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Disgrace, Blame

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Nairobi

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The capital and largest city Kenya

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Jehoshaphat

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Faithful who walked in gods ways

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Foghorns

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Device that makes a loud deep sound to warn ships in fog

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Ed Sullivan show

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American television variety show

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Mesmerize

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To hold the attention of someone, hypnotize

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Beethoven

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A German pianist and composer

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Reverie

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Daydream, Fantasy

30
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Discordant

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in disagreement, differing

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