English Week 8 Vocabulary Flashcards

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Warm or intense feeling

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Ardent

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Those who disrespect laws or rules

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Anarchists

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To have great pleasure in something, to enjoy completely

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Wallowed

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Components or parts

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Constituents

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“Solid earth”

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Terra firma

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Leaflike shoot of seaweed

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Frond

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Uncommunicative, preferring not to speak

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Taciturn

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People or things in the way; obstacles

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Hindrances

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Consisting of convulsions, spasmodic

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Convulsive

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Enscription on a tomb or grave

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Epitaph

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Lobby, foyer, or hall in a building separating it from the outside

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Vestibule

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Action of being religiously devoted

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Piously

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Showing good judgment, wise or careful

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Judicious

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To overrun in large quantities enough to be harmful, threatening or obnoxious

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Infested

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Expression on a persons face

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Countenance

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Bring about, cause, produce

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Engender

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Modifying or adjusting

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Tempering

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Appeared in a large, threatening form

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Loomed

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Marked with spots or smears of color

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Mottled

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Full of fear, timid

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Timorous