English Flashcards by franny esposito | Brainscape

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Ignominy

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Disgrace

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Imperceptibly

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Unable to be detected by the senses

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Appalling

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Shocking

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Intrinsically

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Inherently. As a part of nature of a thing itself

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Vitrified

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Made to look like glass

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Subversive

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Undermining, damaging to the authorities

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Odious

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Arousing a strong dislike or disgust

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Apprehensively

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Anxiously

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Ingratiating

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Making oneself favorable to the other

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Annihilating

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Continual recurring

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Ruminating

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Meditating, thinking

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Contemptuous

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Disgraceful disdainful scornful

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Caste

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Social class

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Chronic

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Completely overwhelming

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Plaintive

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Mournful

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Benevolently

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Harmlessly in a beneficial way

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Cajolery

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Urging with gentle and repeated appeals

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Unabashed

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Not disconcerted or embarrassment, calm

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Optimum

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Most favorable point

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Proliferate

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Multiply rapidly

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Prodigious

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Impressively great

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Endorse

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Gave approval or support to

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Endorse

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Gave approval or supported

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Indulgently

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As if doing one a favor

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Indefatigably

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Tirelessly

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Monogamy

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Practice of being married to only one person

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Axiomatic

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Self evident not needing proof

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Insurmountable

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Impossible to overcome

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Reciprocated

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Returned, mutually shared

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Precipice

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Cliff

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Unprecedented

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Never happened before

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Inexorably

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Relentlessly

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Inconceivable

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Unbelievable

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Lecherous

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Indulging in excessive sexual activity

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Patronizingly

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In condescending manner

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Asset

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Thing of value