Deck 5 Flashcards by Katherine Cavanaugh | Brainscape

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Dexterous

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Skillful with hands

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Celerity

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Speed

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Pallid

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Pale

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Censorious

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Disapproving; critical

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Dichotomy

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A Division of two parts

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Incongruous

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Not fitting in

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Malady

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Illness

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Palpable

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Easily felt or understood

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Unfettered

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Set free

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Censure

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Blame

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Extrinsic

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Irrelevant

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Male diction

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Curse

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Panacea

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Remedy for all ills

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Prevaricate

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Speak misleadingly and evasively

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Scuttle

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Sink

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U frock

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To remove a priest from his position

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Cerebral

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Intellectual

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Certitude

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Certainty

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Malinger

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Deliberately avoid work; shirk

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Proclivity

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Tendency towards

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Sensuous

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Appealing towards the senses

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Charlatan

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Trickster who claims knowledge he doesn’t have

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Sentinel

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Guard; sentry

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Chart

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Wary of; cautious to give

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Prodigal

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Wasteful

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Sequester

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Isolate

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Upbraid

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Scold

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Antediluvian

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Outdated

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Prodigious

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Very large

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Serendipity

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Fortunate coincidence

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Uproarious

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Hilarious

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Anthology

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A book with poems and stories

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Chicanery

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Trickery

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Fatuous

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Silly; foolish

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Upshot

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Outcome

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Chimerical

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Changeable

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Urbane

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Sophisticated; suave