Death Of A Salesman Flashcards

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Mercurial

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Quick and changeable in character

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Trepidation

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Dread;apprehension

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Resigned

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Quit, submitted, given up

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Accommodating

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Helpful and obligating

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Crestfallen

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Dejected; dispirited

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Reminiscences

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Memories; accounts of past events

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Contemptuous

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Scornful

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Elegiacally

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Expressing sorrow; mournful

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Insinuates

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To hint; to introduce oneself by subtle and artful means

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Implacably

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Incapable of being pleased, pacified, appeased

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Incipient

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Beginning to exists or appear

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Initiative

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The power or ability to follow through with a plan or task

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Tauntingly

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To challenge or deride someone scornfully or mockingly

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Idyllic

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A paradise of rustic simplicity

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Incarnate

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Invested with bodily mature and form; personified; made into flesh

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Laconic

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Sparing of words; terse

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Valise

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A small piece of hand luggage

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Stolid

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Having or showing little emotion; passive

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Aura

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A distinctive quality that personifies person or thing

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Dispel

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To rid of by (or as if by) scattering; drive away

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Audacity

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The quality of fearless daring; boldness; arrogance; insolence

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Simultaneously

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Happening; existing; or done at the same time

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Feasible

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Capable of being accomplished or carried out; suitable

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Subdued

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Conquered; subjugated; brought under control

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Incredulously

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Disbelieving; skeptical

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Adonis

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A youth loved by Aphrodite for this striking beauty; a young man of great physical beauty