Language Arts Flashcards

1
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A deviations from a course or position

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Inflection

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2
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Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity

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Naive

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3
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Going beyond what is appropriate, permitted, or courteous

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Presumptuous

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4
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Call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response

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Elicit

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5
Q

Make less rigid or softer calm anxiety of someone

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Mollify

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6
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A behavioral attribute peculiar to an individual.

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Indosyncrasy

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7
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Impossible to satisfy

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Insatiable

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8
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In disarray; extremely disorderly

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Disheveled

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9
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Suppress or crush completely

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Quell

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10
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A thunderous verbal attack

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Diatribe

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11
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Actively expressed feeling of dislike or hostility

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Antagonism

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12
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Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or wrongdoings.

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Contrite

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13
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Believing that people are motivated by self interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity

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Cynical

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14
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the quality of being bright of sending out rays of light.

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Effulgence

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15
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Secret or sly; sneaky

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Furtive

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16
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Not willing to believe; not believeing

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Incredulous

17
Q

Strong feeling of embarrassment

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Mortification

18
Q

Capable of being bend or shaped

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Pliant

19
Q

Deceptively pleasing in appearance; superficially plausible, but actually wrong

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Specious

20
Q

Unpleasantly loud or harsh

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Srident