English Vocab 2 Flashcards

1
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Combative

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Ready or eager to fight

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2
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Wrench

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Twist or pull

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3
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Inscrutable

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Impossible to understand, incomprehensible

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4
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Fatality

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Occurrence of death by accident

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5
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Commiseration

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Sympathy or sorrow

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6
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Ascentic

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Practice of service of self discipline

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7
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Repugnance

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Dislike or aversion

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8
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Mutability

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Liability or tendency to change

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9
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Regimen

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Way of living to improve health

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10
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Compulsion

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Use of cause

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11
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Caprice

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Sudden or unaccountable change of mood or behavior or an unreasonable notion

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12
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Enmity

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Hate or feeling enemy’s hate towards one another

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13
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Smite

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Strike with firm blow or severely punish

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14
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Dearth

A

Scarcity or lack of something

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15
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Ludicrous

A

Amusingly absurd

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16
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Pristine

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Original condition; unspoiled

17
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Gilded

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Covered with gold; look bright

18
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Temporal

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Worldly, not religious

19
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Albeit

A

Although

20
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Imbibe

A

Drink or assimilate

21
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Wary

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Feeling or showing caution to possible dangers

22
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Inoppurtune

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Occurring at an inconvenient or inappropriate time

23
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Retribution

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Punishment inflicted on someone as result of the doing wrong or commuting a crime

24
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Heterogeneous

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Varied/ not similar

25
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Exemplary

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Representing best of its kind