Johnny Bear Vocabulary Flashcards

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Dredge

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To dig up it or to bring about

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Prohibition

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the action of forbidding something, especially by law. or the prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, between 1920-1933

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Inhabitant

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a person or animal that lives in or occupies a place.

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Phlegmatic

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not easily excited to action or display of emotion

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Cravenly

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lacking the least bit of courage, cowardly

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Aristocrat

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Wealthy, High social ranked people

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Plaintively

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showing or expressing sorrow

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Monotonous

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dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest.

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Pantomime

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the art of telling a story without speech or verbal sound, someone who performs pantomime is a mime.

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Pestilential

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relating to or tending to cause infectious diseases.

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Sullen

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gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed; dull or somber in sound or color

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Reproach

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the expression of disapproval or disappointment.

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Insipid

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lacking in either flavor or interest

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Adage

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a proverb or short statement expressing a general truth.

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