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Great Expectations Vocab Flashcards

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Ravenously

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Hungrily

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Prevailing

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Most common; widespread

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Connubial

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Relating to marriage

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Disconsolately

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Gloomily

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Trenchant

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Distinct; forceful effective and vigorous

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Consternation

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State of paralyzing dismay

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Augmented

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Added to

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Obstinately

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Stubbornly

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Ague

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Fever and chills

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Countenances

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Faces

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Blithe

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Carefree and lighthearted

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Omnipotent

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All powerful

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Asunder

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Apart from each other

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Execrating

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Cursing

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Exonerated

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Freed from blame

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Sagaciously

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Intelligently; wisely

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Insolently

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Insultingly; rudely

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Capricious

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Whimsical

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Ignominiously

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Shamefully; humiliatingly

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Felicitous

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Lucky

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Synopsis

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Summary

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Fortuitously

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By accident or chance

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Pervade

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Be present throughout

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Trepidation

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State of dread or alarm

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Augur

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Predict

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Benevolent

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Good

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Morose

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Melancholy; gloomy

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Unscrupulous

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Without a conscience or moral code

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Corroborated

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Supported by other evidence

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Alienate

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Turn away, push away

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Latent

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Be present but not active, hidden

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Futile

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Having no useful result

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Detrimental

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Damaging

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Perused

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Looking over with care

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Depreciation

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Belittling

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Magnanimous

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Generous in forgiving; noble

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Avaricious

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Stingy

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Odious

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Arousing strong dislike

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Acquiesced

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Consented without argument

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Reticent

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Reserved

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Exhorted

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Urged; advised

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Incongruity

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At odds; not matching

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Lucid

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Easily understood

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Pernicious

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Destructive; deadly

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Execrated

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Denounced

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Loitered

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Proceeded slowly or with many stops

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Impetuosity

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Forcefully or passionately

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Imperiously

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Domineeringly, overbearingly

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Contiguous

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Neighboring, adjacent

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Approbation

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Approval

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Fain

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Pleased; willingly; obliged

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Consorted

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Associated

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Obsequious

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Full of or showing servile compliance

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Abject

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Contemptible; miserable, wretched

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Auspicious

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Marked by success, grand

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Alluded

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Suggested indirectly

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Repudiate

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Totally reject

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Tenure

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Period during which something is held

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Fidelity

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Faithfulness, loyalty

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Eliciting

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Bringing out, drawing forth

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Expatriated

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Removed from residence in one’s native land

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Impiously

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Lacking reverence, respect or dutifulness

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Extricate

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Release from an entanglement

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Insolent

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Arrogant, insultingly

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Superciliously

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Showing haughty disdain

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Intricacies

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Complexities

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Plaited

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Braided

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Truculent

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Having a tendency to fight, fierce

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Consigned

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Entrusted, gave over to the care of another

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Propensities

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Tendencies

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Intimation

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Hint

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Refectories

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Rooms where meals are served

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Presentiment

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Sense that something is about to happen

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Depose

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Make a statement of facts

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Obdurate

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Hard-hearted; not giving in to persuasion

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Abeyance

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Condition of being temporarily set aside

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Epistle

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Letter

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Irresolute

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Undecided

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Malignant

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Disposed towards evil

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Tithe

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One tenth

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Reconnoitre

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Make a preliminary investigation

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Indelible

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Permanent

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Assiduity

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Constant personal attentions

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Apparition

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Ghost

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