Deck 4 Flashcards

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Salubrious

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Health giving

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Precipice

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Steep slope

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Truant

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Shirker; someone absent w/o permission

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Ambulatory

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Able to walk around (used for hospital patients)

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Capacious

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Spacious

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Impious

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Wicked; profane

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Precipitous

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Done in a hurry

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Salutary

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Something that teaches a lesson

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Capitulate

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Surrender

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Ossify

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Turn to bone; become fixed/rigid

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Preclude

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Prevent or make impossible

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Carping

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Constant criticism

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Lummox

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Clumsy person

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Despondent

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Having no hope; miserable

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Expatriate

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Refugee; emigrant

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Sanguinary

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Bloodthirsty; bloody

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Castigate

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Scold strongly

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Amorphous

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Lacking in shape

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Catharsis

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Purging pent up emotions

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Machinations

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Plots and plans

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Overwrought

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Worked up; emotional

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Sardonic

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Mocking

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Preeminent

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Famous; outstanding

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Caucus

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Type of private political meeting

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Exposition

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Clear explanation

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Maelstrom

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Whirlpools

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Prerogative

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Right or privilege

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Savant

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Person with knowledge

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Incipient

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Just beginning

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Magnanimous

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Generous; big-hearted

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Palisade

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Fence made of posts

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Prescient

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Having fore-knowledge

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Cavalcade

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Procession of vehicles

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Extradite

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Deport from one country back to home country

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Magnate

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Powerful businessman