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Grendel Vocab Flashcards

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Sycophant

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Noun

A self seeking; servile flatterer; fawning parasite.

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Docile

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Adjective

Easily managed or handled; teachable

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Hoary

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Adjective

Gray or white with age; ancient; stale

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Dirge

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Noun

A funeral song; lamenting for the dead

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Inviolable

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Adjective

Prohibiting violation; secure from destruction; incorruptible

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Pungent

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Adjective
Sharply affecting the organs of taste or smell; distressing to the feelings or mind; sharply expressive; mentally stimulating or pleasing

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Petulant

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Adjective

Moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation especially over some trifling annoyance

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Ludicrous

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Adjective

Causing laughter because of absurdity; ridiculous; laughable

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Undulant

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Adjective

Wavelike in motion or pattern

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Paltry

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Adjective

Ridiculously or insultingly small; worthless; mean or contemptible

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Brume

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Noun

Mist, fog

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Nihilism

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Noun

nothingness

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Paradox

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Noun

Statement that seems contradictory but expresses a possible truth; contrary to popular belief; self-contradictory

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Chilblains

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Noun

An inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture

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Obsequious

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Adjective

Servile or obedient

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Inchoate

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Adjective

Just begun; not finished; lacking order

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Keens

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Noun/ verb
Noun- a wailing lament for the dead
Verb- to wail in lamentation

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Concrescence

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Noun

A growing together of things that were once not together, as of tissue or embryonic parts; coalescence

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Ossified

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Adjective

Hardened into or like bone

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Inexorable

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Adjective

Unyielding; inalterable; not to be persuaded

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Ruse

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Noun

A trick

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