Group 2 Flashcards by Olivea Kieffer | Brainscape

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Innocuous

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Causing or intending little harm

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Injurious

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Causing damage or loss

And injury

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Lamentation

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Express of sorrow or deep regret

The lament of a very depressed bride

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Lampoon

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Sharp satire

Harpoon sharp

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Levity

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Lightness, lacking seriousness

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Lurid

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Gruesome, melodramatic, shocking

Lurid details

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Magnate

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A person of great influence in a particular field

A magistrate

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Miser

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One who saves greedily

Scrooge was an old miser

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Mitigate

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To make less severe

Minimize the damages

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Morose

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Gloomy, ill tempered

Morbid

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