English Vocab Set 1&2 Flashcards

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Disconsolate

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Cheerless gloomy unhappy

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Incessantly

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Continuously, constantly

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Pauper

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Person with very little money

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Privations

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Lack of necessaries of life, hardships

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Exorbitant

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Much too high in price or amount

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Aghast

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Filled with shock, horror

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Adulation

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Excessive devotion to someone

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Prospects

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Outlook for the future

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Askew

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Crooked awry to one side

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Imminent

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Likely to occur at any moment

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Doggedness

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Stubbornness

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Reiterated

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To repeat excessively

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Precariously

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Unsteadily insecurely

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Nostalgia

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Bittersweet longing for the past

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Poignantly

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In a profoundly moving manor

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Retribution

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Revenge pay back

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Intimidated

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Frightened, fill with fear hesitant

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Exuberance

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Condition of uncontrollable joy

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Contrition

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Remorse or guilt

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Bravado

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False show of courage

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Intravenously

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Through or within a vein

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Discern

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Detect by looking carefully

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Oppressive

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Hard to tolerate

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Frivolous

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Silliness of not caring

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Precluded

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Prevent from happening

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Impunity

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Exception from punishment , freedom

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Avenger

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Takes revenge for an offense

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Immolation

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Destruction, sacrifice

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Connoisseurship

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Expert on knowledge

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Impose upon

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Intrude, take advantage of

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Recoiling

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Moving backward as if in horror

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Endeavored

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Try

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Obstinate

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Stubborn

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Succession

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Serious course of events

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Hindrances

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Burdensome obstruction, obstacles

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Symmetry

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Balanced arrangement

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Consternation

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Anxiety or fear

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Cowered

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To crouch as in fear or shame

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Sychronizing

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Operating at the same time

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Disposition

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State of mind, personality, temper

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Placid

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Calm, peaceful

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Apprehensive

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Uneasy or fearful

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Garish

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Bright and showy

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Recounted

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Described in detail or narrated

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Sullen

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Gloomy or dismal

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Furtively

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Secretly or slyly

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Imperative

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Important urgent

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Fretful

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Irritable or annoy-able peevish

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Deft

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Neatly skilled quick in movement