Lesson 17 Flashcards

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Subter

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Secretly, beneath

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Subterfuge

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Deception, concealment

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Scand, scend, scent

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climb

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Condescend

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To put aside one’s dignity or superiority voluntarily and assume equality with one regarded as inferior

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Tain, ten, tent, tin

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hold

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Tenacious

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Not easily pulled apart; tending to cling to; cohesive

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Vig

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Lively, vigor

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Vigilante

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Any person who takes the law into his or her own hands, as by avenging a crime

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-phobia, -phobic, -phobiac

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Dread of, the morbid fear of, relating to phobias, a person who has a phobia

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Glossophobia

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The fear of public speaking

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