Eliot Vocab Flashcards by Kaylee Pate | Brainscape

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slow in understanding, insensitive

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obtuse

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moving with short, rapid steps

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scuttling

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extremely concerned and careful about detail

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meticulous

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long and tiring

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tedious

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wander from the subject being discussed

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digress

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respectful

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deferential

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a safe quiet place of refuge

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retreat

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reduced to a fixed form or phrase

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formulated

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to do without permission, to be overly bold

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presume

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carefully and shrewdly polite

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politic

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