Farenheit Vocab Study Guide Flashcards

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Imperceptible

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Very slight or gradual; barely noticeable

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Venemous

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Poisonous

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Mausoleum

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A stately tomb or burial place

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Pulverize

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To reduce to dust or powder; demolish completely

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Melancholy

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A depressed or gloomy state of mind

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Odious

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Hateful offensive

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Cataract

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A furious rush or downpour of water; a torrent

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Feign

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To put on the appearance of; to pretend

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Pratfall

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A comic or humiliating fall on the rear end

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Serenity

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Peacefulness

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Gibber

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To talk in a confused meaningless way

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Subside

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To lessen decrease

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Intuitively

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Known by intuitions or insight

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Profusion

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Abundance; great quantity or amount

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Insidious

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Intended to entrap or mislead

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Verbiage

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Over abundance of words

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Oracle

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Someone who can look into the future

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Manikin

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A dummy used to display clothes

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Quarry

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Something hunted

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Juggernaut

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A large, destructive object that crushes everything in its path

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Ricochet

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To bounce of something from the force of an impact

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Luminosity

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Brightness

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Incriminate

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To name others as involved in a crime

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Fragmentary

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Consisting of fragments;broken; incomplete

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Scythe

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A tool with a large curving blade used to cut (hay,wheat) by hand

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Pedant

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A person who makes an excessive display of learning

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Metropolis

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A large busy city