Les Mis Flashcards

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Sentinel

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Person employed to keep watch for something

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Aghast

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Struck with fear

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Vengeance

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Harming someone in relation for something they did

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Parole

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Conditional release from imprisonment

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Reverence

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Feeling of respect for someone or something

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Martyr

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Someone who voluntarily died

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Righteous

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Morally justified

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Repute

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Hight esteem and honor

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Ransom

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Act of Freeing from captivity or punishment (kidnapper)

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Trinket

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Small cheap things

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Intercede

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Intervene on behalf of another

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Inebriate

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Make drunk

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13
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Treacherous

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Dangerously unstable and unpredictable

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Piety

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Righteousness by virtue of being religious

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Falter

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Move hesitatingly, like about to give way

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Sanction

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Official permission or approval

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Rally

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Gather or being together

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Agog

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Highly excited

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Crusade

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Series of actions tending towards a particular end

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Pensive

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Deeply or seriously thoughtful

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Cunning

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Showing inventiveness and skill

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Dominion

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Control or power through legal authority

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Reprieve

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Delaying of punishment

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Phantom

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Exist in perception only

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Baron

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Nobleman in various countries of varying rank