English Week 7 Vocabulary Flashcards

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Encouragement or discord; rebellion; instigation

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Fomentation

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To treat with disdain or scorn; to mock

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Flout

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Journey or voyage made for a specific purpose

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Expedition

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Violent & noisy disruption or commotion, uproar

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Tumult

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Victim, as in someone or something being hunted

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Prey

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Gloomy silence, showing irritation or ill-humor

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Sullen

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Dividing line between two adjacent river systems

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Watershed

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To make a harsh, discorted, usually metallic sound

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Jangle

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The rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge or conduct

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Philosophy

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To arouse in emotion or provoke to action

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Piqued

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Unmannerly intrusion or presumption, insolence

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Impertinence

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Ornamental object which elaborate figures are sorted in a pattern

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Arabesque

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Twisted or coiled; complicated

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Convoluted

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Complex whole formed by combining

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Synthesis

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Jealousy or discontent

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Envy

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Reduction of sensibility because of disease or substances

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Stupor

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Paleness

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Pallor

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Hearty, joyous humor or spirit

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Jovial

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To speak harmful untruths about

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Maligned

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To decline

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Refuse