GE Chapters 9 - 15 Vocab Flashcards

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Felicitous

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Well chosen or suited to the circumstances

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Frantic

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Distraught with fear,­ anxiety, or other emotion

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Superciliously

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Behaving or looking as though one thinks one is
superior to others

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Divined

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Discover (something) by guesswork or intuition

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Coarse

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Not elegantly formed or proportioned; rude or
vulgar

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Plaintively

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Sounding sad and mournful

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Condescend

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Show that one feels superior; be patronizing

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Alluded

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Suggest or call attention to indirectly

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Scaffold

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A building for attending civil, legal, or work­related
topics

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9
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Assented

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Unscrupulous

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Disconsolately

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Surmising

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Rampage

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