Englush Week 11 Vocabulary Flashcards

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Valiant, courageous

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Doughty

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To hold spellbound, to captivate

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Enthralled

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Unfriendly or hostile; menacing, threatening

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Surly

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Someone who works for another person to learn a trade

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Apprenticed

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Characterized by nobility or an exalted worth

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Sublimity

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To relieve, ease; to make milder or lesser

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Assuage

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Rubbish; trash

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Refuse

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Constantly changing

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Mutable

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Mapping of an area

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Topography

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Strong beliefs

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Conviction

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To incorporate as ones own

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Assimilate

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To slight someone or belittle

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Disparaging

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Made by humans instead of by nature

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Synthetic

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Marvelous, amazing; ominously indicative or significant

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Portentous

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Like water, crystal or air; clear & transparent

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Limpid

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Implied or understood but not directly expressed

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Implicit

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To hold back

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Stifle

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Static joy; delight, joyful ecstasy

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Rapture

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Full, unimaginative

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Prosaic

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Seemly endless

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Interminable