Lesson 5 Vocab Flashcards

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Compradeship

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Relationship between people of shared interests

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Prestige

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Status or reputation

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Recrimination

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Act of answering an accuser by accusing in return

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Supplication

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A humble request

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Defiant

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With bold opposition; challenging

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Beseeching

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Earnestly asking; begging

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Desolate

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Miserable, comfortless

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Morass

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A swamp or Bog (often used figuratively)

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Smug

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Self-satisfied; feeling superior

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Immortality

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Living or lasting forever

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Complacent

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Self satisfied; feeling superior; smug

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Anguish

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Agony; acute mental or emotional suffering

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Morose

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ill-humored, gloomy, fretful

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Brusque

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Blunt, Rough, abrupt in manner

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Imperious

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Domineering, dictatorial, overbearing

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