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Adv English I > Great Expectations Vocab > Flashcards

Great Expectations Vocab Flashcards

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Gibbet

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hanging post

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Flaxen

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pale, grayish yellow

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Impregnable

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not to be overcome or overthrown

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Forge

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hearth used for heating metals

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Connubial

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of marriage or wedlock

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Disconsolately

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characterized by or causing dejection

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Larceny

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the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another

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Squally

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stormy, threatening

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Trenchant

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distinct, clearly or sharply defined

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Consternation

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a sudden, alarming amazement that results in utter confusion; dismay

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Remonstrance

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a protest

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Imbruing

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to stain

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Garret

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an attic; room on the top floor

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Interlocutor

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a person who questions

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Pall

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a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin

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Owing to

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because of

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Cravat

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a cloth, often made of or trimmed in lace, worn about the neck by men especially in the 17th century

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Dispatch

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to hasten; be quick

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Ague

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a fit of fever or shivering or shaking chills, accompanied by pains in the bones and joints

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Imp

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a little devil or demon

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Imprecations

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cursing; a curse

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Constable

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a British police officer

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Prodigiously

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vast in size; abnormal

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Deuce

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slang for “where the devil?”

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Conciliatory

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tending to reconcile; to make right

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Vicariously

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taking the place of another person or thing; acting or serving as a substitute

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Penitential

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a book or code of canons relating to penance or its imposition

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Banns

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any public announcement of a proposed marriage

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Corn-Chandler

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seller of grains

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Bobbish

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hearty; in good spirits

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Regaled

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to entertain with choice food or drink

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Goads

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a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.

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Presentiment

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a feeling or impression that something is about to happen, especially something evil

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Tersely

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abruptly concise; curt

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Intimated

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to make known; announce

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Homily

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a sermon

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Commiserating

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to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity

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Contumaciously

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willfully and obstinately disobedient

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Billed

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willfully and obstinately disobedient

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Apparition

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anything that appears, especially something remarkable or startling

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Joviality

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the state or quality of being jovial; merriment; jolly

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Arid

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lacking interest or imaginativeness

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Manacled

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handcuffed with shackles or irons

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Groveling

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to lie or crawl downward and the body prostrate, especially in abject humility, fear, etc

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Parley

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an informal conference with an enemy under a truce, as between active hostilities

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Alighted

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to dismount

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Divergence

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separation; deviation

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Sluce-gate

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regulates the flow of water

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Mangle

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a machine for smoothing or pressing clothes

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Halloa

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shout to attract attention

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Catechism

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an elementary book containing a summary of principles of the Christian religion

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Infirmity

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a physical weakness or ailment

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Venerated

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to regard or treat with reverence

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Purblind

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slow or deficient in learning, imagination, or vision

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Erudition

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knowledge acquired by study, research, etc

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Perspicuity

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clearness or lucidity

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Uncongenial

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disagreeable; not appropriate

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Sagaciously

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having displayed acute mental discernment

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Ablutions

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a cleansing with water

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Gormandizing

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to eat greedily or ravenously

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Loiter

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to waste time or dawdle

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Disputations

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argumentative

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Insolently

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boldly rude or disrespectful; insulting

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Capricious

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Ignominiously

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humiliating, discreditable

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Monstrosity

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a monster or something monstrous

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Reticence

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restraint in speaking

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Adamantine

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firm in attitude or opinion

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Caparisoned

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to put on rich and sumptuous clothing

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Rumination

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meditation, pondering

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Felicitous

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well-suited for the occasion

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Derision

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Fortuitously

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lucky, fortunate

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Discomfiture

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frustration of hopes or plans

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Nevvy

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Superciliously

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haughty, disdainful, or contemptuous

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Eddies

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small current of air

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Toadies

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Humbugs

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a person who is not what they claim or pretend to be; imposter

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Epergne

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an ornamental piece for the center of a table, for holding fruit, flowers, etc

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Sal Volatile

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smelling salts

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Inefficiency

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lack of power or capacity to produce the desired effect

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Dextrous

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use of both hands equally well

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Obtruded

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thrust forward; intrude

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Sanguinary

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blood stained

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Trepidation

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fear; trembling

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Stoldity

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not easily stirred or moved

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Imbecility

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Remunerative

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not profitable

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Indentures

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a contract by which a person, as an apprentice, is bound to service

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Sagacious

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keen; shrewd

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Temporized

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come to terms with

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Tremulous

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shaking or quivering

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Abberation

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mental irregularities

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Propitiation

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conciliation

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Stratagem

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a plan, scheme, or trick for surprising or deceiving an enemy

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Untoward

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unfavorable

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Vexation

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Suppositious

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hypothetical

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Subterfuge

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trying to hide something

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Quailed

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shrunk down in fear

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Pugilistic

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a person who fights with the fists; boxer, usually a professional

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Expostulatory

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to argue or reason with, especially in order to dissuade from an action or intention

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Veritable

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truthful statement

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Monotonous

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lacking in variety

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Exultant

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highly elated; jubilant

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Audacious

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Miscreant

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Vagabond

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Stupendous

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causing amazement

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Flaccid

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weak, limp

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Ecstatic

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great rapture or delight

Adv English I (5 decks)

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