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