Lesson 5 Flashcards

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Affinity

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Attraction for someone or something with which one feels a closeness or kinship

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Acrimony

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Bitterness or sharpness of temper, manner, or speach; hostility

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Ambivalent

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Having mixed, often opposing, feelings about something or someone, indecisive

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Cessation

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A stopping, either final or temporary

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Emaciated

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Very thin or wasted away, especially from lack of nourishment; scrawny

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Enclave

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A distinct region or community enclosed within a larger territory

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Engender

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To bring into being, to produce

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Exacerbate

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To make more severe, bitter, or violent

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Illicit

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Not allowed, improper, or unlawful

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Indigenous

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Naturally living or growing on a certain area; native

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Inexorable

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Not to be persuaded, stopped, or moved by entreaty or plea; relentless

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Infatuated

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Filled with excessive, shallow, or foolish love or desire

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Insatiable

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Never satisfied; greedy

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Poignant

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Painfully moving, affecting, or touching

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Proselytize

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To persuade someone to convert to a faith, belief, or cause

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