Crucible Terma Flashcards

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Crucible

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An ordeal or severe trial

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Inert

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Unable to move

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Ingratiate

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To gain favor with someone by deliberate efforts

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Paradox

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A statement or idea that seems self contradictory, or absurd but in reality expresses possible truth

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Dissemble

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To conceal one’s true motives or thoughts

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Begrudge

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To envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of others

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Formidable

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Causing fear or apprehension

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Trepidation

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A state of alarm

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Reckon

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To calculate

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Partisan

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Biased towards one group

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Titillate

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To excite

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Pretense

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Act that is pretend or false

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Licentious

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Sexually unrestrained

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Condemn

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To give someone a legal sentence

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Lofty

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Very high

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Bewilder

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To confuse or puzzle someone

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Ameliorate

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To improve something or make it more bearable

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Indignant

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Feeling upset about the injustice of something

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Avid

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Eager for or enthusiastic about something

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Civil

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Polite or courteous

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Base

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Lacking morals, dishonorable, selfish

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Deference

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Polite, respect, especially putting another person’s interest first

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Daft

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Stupid, senseless

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Gingerly

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Doing something in a cautious way

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Forbidding

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Unfriendly, hostile

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Contentious

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Likely to create strife

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Probity

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Honesty

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Prodigious

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Extraordinary in size

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Reproach

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To find fault with

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Effrontery

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Bold behavior that is insulting

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Qualm

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Uneasy feeling about the rightness of an action

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Guile

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Treacherous, cunning

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Incredulous

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Skeptical

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Lechery

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Lustful behavior

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Ipso facto

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By the very fact

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Gaunt

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Extremely thin and boney

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Embodiment

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A person, being, or tangible thing that expresses an abstract idea

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Flounder

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Struggle with, stumbling

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Reprieve

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A rest from impending punishment

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Adamant

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Stubbornly unyielding in attitude

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Cleave

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Stick closely to

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Quail

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To lose heart

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Calamity

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Great misfortune or disaster

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Conciliatory

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Attempting to reconcile with someone

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Purge

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To get rid of whatever is impure or undesirable

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Frantic

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Desperate or wild with excitement