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
3
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Swagger
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A type of walk
4
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comprehensive
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Meaning complete or total
5
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senile
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Showing weakness mentally
6
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sententiously
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To the extent that it’s expressive more than it needs to be.
7
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Lithe
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Agile or good at moving lightly
8
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Insolence
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Being disrespectful
9
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waver
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Be indecisive
10
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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
12
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somberly
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To be serious
13
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Piety
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to show strong belief
14
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vigil
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Observing or watching
15
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transgress
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To cross something
16
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wrath
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Full of anger
17
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calamity
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Event that causes damage or distress
18
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recoil
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Is springing back physically
19
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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
Gaining to be high with more power
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lateral
Form a side or sides
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Auspicious
showing or suggesting that future success is likely
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ode
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
a proclamation having the force of law
order, command
