ela Flashcards by luke metz | Brainscape

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swilling

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drinking greedily 1

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strutting

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walking with head up high and chest puffed out trying impres

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certin

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a mentally defective person

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deficiency

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lack

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perspective

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viewpiont

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trajectory

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path of a body moving through space

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converging

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meeting at a point

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swaggering

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walking in a defiant manner

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nanosecond

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one billionth of a second

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artifact

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man made abject

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avarice

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greed

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sucrose

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sugar

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incision

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cut

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divugled

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made known

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bionic

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having artificial body parts, especially electromechanical ones.

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modification

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alteration

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optimum

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most desirable

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dungarees

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blue jeans

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fealty

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loyalty

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retrieval

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recovery

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grotty

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disgusting

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damsel

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young women of noble birth

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distress

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great pain or mental suffering

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unvanquished

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undefeated

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microsecond

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one millionth of a second

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mainstream

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the ideas, attitudes, or activities that are regarded as normal or conventional

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fiend

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extremely addicted

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hunkering

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crouching down

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humanoid

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having human characteristic

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bulkhead

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a door over a stairway

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ornithopter

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an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings

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propulsion

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a action or process of propelling

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sobriquet

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nickname

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demeanor

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behavior

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postulated

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assume

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fair

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pleasing in appearance

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quest

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adventures expedition

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invincible

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cant be conquered

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ignorance

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lack of knowledge

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sophisticated

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complex

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opiate

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a drug

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massive

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large and heavy

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hulking

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large and clumsy

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offended

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caused to hurt feeling

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abide

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out up with

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tenements

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a low rent apartment that barely meets slandered

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spastic

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(slang) clumsy inept

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flinch

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draw or shrink back

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depleted

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used up

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expel

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drive or force up

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regurgitate

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vomit