English vocabulary Flashcards

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Repulse

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Pulling back

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Sated

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Satisfies that you need or want

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Swagger

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A type of walk

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comprehensive

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Meaning complete or total

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senile

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Showing weakness mentally

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sententiously

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To the extent that it’s expressive more than it needs to be.

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Lithe

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Agile or good at moving lightly

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Insolence

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Being disrespectful

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waver

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Be indecisive

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deference

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Showing respect

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malicious

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Planned to do it or full of hate

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somberly

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To be serious

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Piety

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to show strong belief

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vigil

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Observing or watching

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transgress

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To cross something

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wrath

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Full of anger

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calamity

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Event that causes damage or distress

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recoil

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Is springing back physically

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defile

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to spoil or go bad

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famished

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Extremely hungry

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pious

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Devoutly religious

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arrogance

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Being filled with pried

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perverse

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Showing desire to behave different or going against

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absolve

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to forgive

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prevail

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Gaining to be high with more power

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lateral

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Form a side or sides

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Auspicious

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showing or suggesting that future success is likely

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ode

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a lyric poem usually marked by exaltation of feeling and style, varying length of line, and complexity of stanza forms

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edict

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a proclamation having the force of law
order, command