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Vocab 8-14 > Lessons 8-14 > Flashcards

Lessons 8-14 Flashcards

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To draw or bring out

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Educe

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To produce; to make happen

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Beget

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To collect bit by bit; to gather with patient labor

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Glean

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To wear or irritate, often through rubbing or friction

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Chafe

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Shameless boldness

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Effrontery

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To drink (especially alcohol)

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Imbibe

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To pretend

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Feign

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To stop; to discontinue

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Desist

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To hint at; to refer to indirectly

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Allude

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The choice members or best of a group

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Elite

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10
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Termin

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End; boundary

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Ver

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True

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Dem, demos

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People

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To cheat or swindle; to thwart

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Bilk

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14
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A sermon

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Homily

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15
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Death; a ceasing to exist

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Demise

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To send out; to give forth, as in sound or light

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Emit

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17
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Moral deterioration

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Decadence

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18
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Feeling great dismay or horror

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Aghast

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19
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A storehouse for grain

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Granary

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20
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Easily angered

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Choleric

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To hinder; to obstruct

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Impede

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22
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A feeling of uneasiness

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Qualm

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23
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A written satire used to ridicule or attack someone

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Lampoon

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Conceited; having excessive self-love or admiration

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Narcissistic

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To wipe out; to destroy

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Eradicate

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To concoct; to make up a story in order to decieve

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Fabricate

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27
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Horrible; frightful

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Ghastly

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28
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Multi

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Many

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29
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Naut, naus

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Sailor; ship

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Nov, neo

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New

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31
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Capable of error

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Fallible

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32
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Obvious; too conspicuous

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Blatant

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33
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To waste time

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Dawdle

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34
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An associate; a partner

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Affiliate

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35
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To act slavishly submissive

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Fawn

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36
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A false and malicious accusation

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Calumny

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37
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To scold or rebuke severely and at length

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Berate

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38
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A fawning, servile follower

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Minion

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39
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Lonely; forlorn; uninhabited; barren

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Desolate

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40
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The cause if ruin, harm, distress, it death

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Bane

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41
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To calm down

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Pacify

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42
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To mix up or distort

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Garble

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43
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To lie

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Prevaricate

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44
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To steal

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Filch

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45
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A beginner

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Neophyte

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46
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Corp, corpor

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Body

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47
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Rupt

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To break

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48
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Inter

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Between; among

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49
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Glaringly bad; outrageous

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Flagrant

50
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An aristocrat

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Patrician

51
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One sent on a special mission to represent others

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Emissary

52
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Having a similar origin, nature, or character

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Kindred

53
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A loud quarrel or fight

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Fracas

54
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To tear (flesh) jaggedly

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Lacerate

55
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Useless; pointless

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Futile

56
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Spotless; perfect

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Immaculate

57
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Manner of walking

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Gait

58
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To complain or find fault in a petty or nagging way

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Carp

59
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To ask; to inquire

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Query

60
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A line of people or vehicles

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Queue

61
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Very wicked; notorious

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Nefarious

62
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Beginning; origin

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Genesis

63
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A deceptive outward appearance

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Facade

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Am

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Friend; to love

65
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Aqu

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Water

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Brev

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Short

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Prot

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First; original

68
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A flood; an overwhelming rush

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Deluge

69
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Universal; wide-ranging

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Catholic

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Weird; mysterious; strange and frightening

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Eerie

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Warlike; relating to the military

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Martial

72
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Attributing human characteristics or qualities to objects, animals, or gods

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Anthropomorphic

73
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One who receives benefits

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Beneficiary

74
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To swerve or lurch from side to side while in motion

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Careen

75
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Self-confidence

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Aplomb

76
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Slyness and cunning in dealing with others

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Guile

77
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A small amount

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Modicum

78
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To grow embittered over time; to rot

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Fester

79
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To become week or feeble; to lose strength

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Languish

80
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Something that covers or conceals

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Pall

81
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Great distraction; chaos

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Havoc

82
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Having a bad taste or smell; spoiled

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Rancid

83
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Patr, pattern

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Father

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Scop

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To watch

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Scrib, script

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To write

86
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Cent

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One hundred

87
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A great or complete destruction of life

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Holocaust

88
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To draw into conflict or fight

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Embroil

89
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Something existing outside of it’s proper time

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Anachronism

90
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To attack the reputation of; to speak ill of

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Denigrate

91
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Kind; compassionate

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Humane

92
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Emotionally excessive; overly demonstrative

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Effusive

93
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No longer in existence

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Defunct

94
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Slavish follower

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Lackey

95
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To form a mental picture

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Envisage

96
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To mourn

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Lament

97
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To stare with an open mouth

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Gape

98
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Rude and disrespectful

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Impertinent

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Arrogant; proud

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Haughty

100
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Someone or something a person cannot conquer or achieve; a hated enemy

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Nemesis

101
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Deadly; fatal

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Lethal

102
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Pot, poss

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To be able

103
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Psych

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Mind

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Arm

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Tools, arms (weapons)

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A person, thing, or agent that caused it speeds up a reaction or change without itself being changed

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Catalyst

106
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Vocabulary distinctive to a particular group of people

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Jargon

107
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Showing sound judgement

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Judicious

108
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A minor weakness in character

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Foible

109
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The act of blessing

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Benediction

110
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Trivial; silly

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Frivolous

111
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Liveliness; willingness; eagerness

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Alacrity

112
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To make a god of; to look upon or worship as a god

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Deify

113
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Bloody and extensive slaughter

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Carnage

114
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Push into motion

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Impel

115
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An inscription on a tombstone; a brief comment about a deceased person

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Epitaph

116
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To persist in talking continuously (on or about something)

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Harp

117
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Of or relating to the side

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Lateral

118
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Pale; faint in color

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Pallid

119
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Acting suddenly without thought

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Impetuous

120
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Stru, struct

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To build

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Tempor, temper

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Time

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Therm

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Heat

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