Lesson 9-10 Flashcards

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Embroil

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To draw into a conflict or fight

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Elude

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To escape, to get away

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Emissary

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One sent on a special mission

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Emit

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To send out

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Enmity

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Unfriendly feeling, hostility

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Ensue

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To result from

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Entice

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To attract, to lure

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Entity

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An independent being, separate existence

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Envisage

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To imagine

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Epitaph

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An inscription on a tombstone

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Fallible

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Capable of error

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Fallow

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Inactive, unproductive

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Farcical

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Absurd, ridiculous

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Fatalistic

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Believing that all things are inevitable and determined by fate.

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Fawn

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To try to get approval of an important or powerful person by giving that person praise, special attention

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Fealty

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Loyalty, faithfulness

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Feign

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To pretend

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Feisty

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Aggressive, lively, energetic

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Felicity

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Happiness

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Felonious

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Unlawful, like a felony

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Dewy

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Innocent

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Cannibalize

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To take parts from something disabled to build or repair another thing or machine

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Arbalest

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A crossbow from medieval times

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Penury

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An extreme lack of money