Eng Flashcards

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Very hungry ; desiring or consuming food in great quantities

Unusually eager or enthusiastic abput an activity

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Voracious

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The distance of measurement of something from side to side

Great extent of something

An open and tolerant view of the world & life

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Breadth

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Bustle : noisy & bustling activity

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Hurly-burly

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Something trivial : little or no importance

Small amount

Cold dessert

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Trifle

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Make guess about something on basis of evidence

A conclusion drawn by evidence or intuitive feeling

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Surmise

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To give compensation to someone for injury or loss

Pay or reward someone for their service

Compensation, remuneration

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Recompense

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Someone circulating something disapproved

Commerial supplier of goods

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Purveyor

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A band of decoration along the wall pf the room

Coarse, shaggy wooden cloth

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Frieze

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A taditional saying considered as the general truth

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Adage

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An excessive quantity of something that people get sickened or bored about it

Overindulgence of something - food and drink

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Surfeit

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To experience sever stomach pains

To irritate someone

To complain

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Gripe

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A small songbird; brown & a short upright tail

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Wren

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Ill mannered

Awkward : clumsy and ungrateful

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Uncouth

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Empty

Alone

Grim : dismal and gloomy

To make place barren

To make someone feel sad

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Desolate

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Formally renounce something : to give up previously held belief formally

To deny, reject or avoid something

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Abjure

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Width

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Who wrote ‘How Do I Love Thee?’

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Elizabeth Barret Browning

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Which sonnet was how do I love thee?

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When and where was she born?

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Durnham, England ; 1806

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What did her parents own & where?

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Sugar plantations in jamaica

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What did she experience at 15 years old?

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Respiratory ailment and spinal injury because of horse riding

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Where did she go with her brother?

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How did her brother die?

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Drowned in a sailing accident which made her more ill

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Hpw many years dis she confine herself?

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What was the name of the young lad whom poems she praised?
Robert Browning
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Over ____________ they exchanged ______ letters
1 year and 8 months (24 months) ; 574 letters
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Whem did they make 'tanan'
1846
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When did elizabeth die?
1861
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Memorize how doI love thee
Okay :p
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The road not taken is a work by
Robert Lee Frost
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Robert lee frost was an _____ with depictions for ____
American poet ; Rural life
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What prizes did he recieve?
4 pulitzer prizes for poetry
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When and where was he born
San francisco , March 26 1874
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His mother and father?
William Perscott Frost and Isabelle Moodie
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When did his father die?
May 5 1885
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When he graduatw from highschool?
1892
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When did he sell his forst poem and wht is it?
My butterfly : An elegy ; 1894
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When frost was ___ he performed a reading of his poetry at the inaguration of president ________
86 ; John F. Kennedy
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He died on
January 29 1963