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English vocab Flashcards

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Alfresco

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In the open air, outdoors

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Abscond

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Depart secretly and hide, especially to avoid prosecution

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Alias

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Assumed name

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Bibliophile

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Lover of books

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Brace

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Two of a kind; pair; couple

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Cache

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Safe place for hiding and storing treasure, supplies, etc

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Claustrophobia

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Dread of being in closed or narrow spaces

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Con

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Swindle, after first gaining the confidence of the victim; trick; coax

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Decimate

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Destroy ten or more percent, or a large portion

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Extraneous

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Coming from the outside; not an essential parts; irrelevant

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Feign

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Make a false show of; pretend; simulate; counterfeit

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Garrulous

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Talking too much about unimportant things; loquacious; talkative

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Genesis

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Origin; coming into being

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Hypercritical

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Excessively fault-finding; captions

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Kleptomania

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One who has a persistent neurotic impulse to steal, though not in need

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Kudos

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Praise for an achievement; glory; fame (game)

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Millennium

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Period of 1,000 years

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Monotonous

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Tiresome because of lack of variety

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Multilateral

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Having many sides; participated in by more than two participants

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Polygamist

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Person married to two or more mates at the same time

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Slatternly

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Dirty; untidy; slovenly

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Subterfuge

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Plan or trick to conceal one’s true objective; stratagem; deception

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Subservient

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Useful in an “under” or subordinate, capacity; excessively submissive

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Supernatural

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Beyond what is natural or observable; not explainable by the laws of nature

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Triumvirate

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Ruling body of three

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Unilateral

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Involving or affecting one side only; one-sided

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