Lesson 22-23 Flashcards by irina glatman

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Arable

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Can be farmed (land)

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Arboreal

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Relating to trees

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Aspersion

A

Gossip

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Auspicious

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Foretelling well for the future

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Avant-grande

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Cutting-edge, new

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Behemoth

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A huge animal, of great size or power

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Bequest

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A gift upon one’s death

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Breadth

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Range or scope

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Brook (verb)

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To endure, to put up with

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Bungle

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To mess up

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Byzantine

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Ornate, fancy

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Calumny

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Ruining Someone’s reputation

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Celerity

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Swiftness, speed

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Chagrin

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Embarrassment and disappointment

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Circumscribe

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Limit

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Cloying

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Overly sweet, saccharine

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Confound

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Confuse, perplex

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Conjecture

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A guess

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Constituents

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Voters

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Convoluted

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Complicated, complex

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Crude

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Rude, lacking refinement

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Curtail

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To shorten, abridge

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Decorous

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Having manners and propriety

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Denuded

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Made infertile or ineffective

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Desultory

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Lacking plan or purpose

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Diaphanous

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See-through, transparent

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Didactic

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Teaching

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Dilatory

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Aimless

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Dirge

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Funeral song

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Discomfited

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Embarrassed, disconcerted

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Discretionary

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Based on personal choice

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Divine

A

Heavenly, god

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Disingenuous

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Dishonest, insincere