Eragon Flashcards

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Concord-concordant-concordance

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Agreement

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Vociferous

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Vehement or clamourous

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Vehement

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Showing strong feeling or forceful.

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Tenuous

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Very weak, fine or insubstantial.

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Credence

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Belief in or acceptance in something as true.

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Morbid

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Characterised by or appealing to an abnormal or unhealthy interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects.

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Sentient

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Able to feel and understand. Like life forms.

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Waxed

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Other than removing hair etc means to talk about something in the specified manner. Wax and wane is a phrase that means increase and decrease.

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Obeisance

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Deferential respect

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Undulating

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Moving with smooth wave-like motion.

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Veritable

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Used as an intensifier for metaphors

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Insinuate

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Suggest or hint something in an indirect and unpleasant way.
Manoeuvre oneself into a favourable position or office through manipulation.

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Untenable

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Not able to be defended against attack or objection.

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Effulgent

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Shining brightly or radiant.

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Denigrate

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Criticise, unfairly disparage.

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Investiture

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When honour or ranked is formally bestowed on a person

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Corpulent

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Fat

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Facetious

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Treating serious issues with flippancy.

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Lugubrious

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Sad and dismal.

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Pontificating

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Express ones opinion in an annoyingly pompous and dog,attic manner.

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Truant

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Absent without leave

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Conflate

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Combining two or more ideas into one.

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Ubiquity

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Present, appearing or found everywhere.

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Bridled

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Controlled or chained.

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Comport

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To behave or act

To agree with.