english 451 vocabulary Flashcards

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  • the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid
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Liquefaction

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  • difficult or impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible
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Incomprehensible

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  • one who flees; a refugee
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Fugitive

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  • something being hunted
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Quarry

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  • an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion
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Phantom

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  • to describe
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Limned

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  • characterized by ludicrous or incongruous distortion as appearance or manner
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Grotesque

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  • something such as belief or institution, that elicits blind and destructive devotion devotion or to which people are ruthlessly sacrificed
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Juggernaut

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  • one who pays undue attention to book learning and formal rules
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Pedants

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  • the existing condition or state of affairs
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Status quo

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  • continuing without interruption
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Incessant

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