July 30 Flashcards by Meeka Halperin

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Denouement

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The part of a story that provides resolution

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Proscription

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A ban

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Deposition

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A statement made in court

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Subsume

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To include or absorb in something else

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Punctilious

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Meticulous

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Repudiates

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Contradicts

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Recapitulates

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Summarizes

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Patent

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Easily recognizable

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Anoint

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To smear or rub with oil

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Collude

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To conspire in

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Construe

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Interpret

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Vanquished

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Defeated

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Cunning

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Craftness, skill in achieving one’s ends by deceit

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Ubiquitous

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Universal

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Mendacity

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Untruthfulness

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Prevarication

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When someone tells a lie

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Baseness

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Lack of moral principles, bad character

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Temporal

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Of or relating to time

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Indefatigable

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Persisting tirelessly

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Fastidious

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Meticulous, attentive to detail

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Jettison

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To throw or drop something. Abandon or discard something

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Propagate

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To spread or promote, breed specimens

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Intelligible

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Able to be understood

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Blighted

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Spoiled, harmed, destroyed

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Apposite

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Appropriate, suitable

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Anachronistic

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Something not in correct chronological time

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Ahistorical

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Lacking historical perspective or context

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Indefensible

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Not justifiable by argument

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Unimpeachable

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Can’t be criticized

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Aboveboard

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Open, honest

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Irascible

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Having/showing a tendency to be easily angered

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Pugnacious

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Eager or quick to argue, fight

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Imperiled

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Put at risk of being harmed

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Haughty

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Arrogant

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Truculence

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Aggressive, combative

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Insatiable

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Impossible to satisfy

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Simpering

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smile or gesture - childish grin

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Coy

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shy, modest

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Coquettish

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flirty woman

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snubbed

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rebuffed, ignored

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spurn

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to reject with disdain or contempt

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ennobled

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lend dignity, nobility to

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stultifying

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causing to lose enthusiasm

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spurious

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counterfeit

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canard

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false report or rumor

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enmities

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hatreds and hostilities

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punctilious

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concerned with details

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brusquely

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terse

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indecorous

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inappropriate

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soporific

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inducing sleepiness