Great Expectation Vocab. (part 2) Flashcards

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Cupidity

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Eager or excessive desire, especially to possess something

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Discomfiture

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Confusion; embarrassment

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Dolefully

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Sorrowful; mournful; melancholy

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Amphibious

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Living or able to live both on land and in water

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Dexterously

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Skillful or adroit in the use of the hands or body

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Incongruity

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The state of being out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming

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Provincial

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Belonging or peculiar to some particular province

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Subsided

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To sink or fall to the bottom; settle; precipitate

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Lethargic

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Drowsy; sluggish

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Disparity

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Lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference

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Enlightenment

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The act of imparting knowledge

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Chronic

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Constant; habitual; inveterate

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Thwarted

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To oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose

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Adjuncts

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Something added to another thing but not essential to it

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Despondent

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Feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, or gloom

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Temperate

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Moderate or self-restrained; not extreme in opinion

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Pacific

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Calm; tranquil

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Sundry

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Various or diverse

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Perversion

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To lead astray morally

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Abhorrence

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A feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination

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Dubiously

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Doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt

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Expatriated

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To banish (a person) from his or her native country

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Perplexed

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Complicated; involved; entangled

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Extricate

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To free or release from entanglement; disengage

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Feign

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To invent fictitiously or deceptively, as a story or an excuse

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Delusion

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An instance of misleading the mind or judgement of

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Incredulous

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Indicating or showing unbelief

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Truculent

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Fierce, cruel; savagely brutal

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Averse

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Having a strong welling of opposition, antipathy, repugnance, etc.,

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Inexplicable

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Incapable of being accounted for or explained

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Tremulous

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Timid; timorous; fearful

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Disquiet

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Lack of calm, peace, or ease, anxiety, uneasiness

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Vivacity

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Liveliness; animation; sprightliness

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Obdurate

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Unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings, stubborn; unyielding

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Irresolute

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Not resolute; doubtful; infirm of purpose; vacillating

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Tumult

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A general outbreak, riot, uprising, or other disorder

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Querulous

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Full of complaints; complaining

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Indelible

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Making marks the cannot be erased, removed

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Difference

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Lacking confidence in one’s own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy

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Avarice

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Insatiable greed for riches; inordinate; miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth

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Assiduity

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Constant or close application or effort; delligence; industry

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Relinquished

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To give up; put aside or desist from

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Interposed

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To put in (a remark, question, etc.) in the midst of a conversation