List 4 Flashcards
Revealing hostility and a readiness to fight
Belligerence
Intonation of the voice
Measured movement, such as in music and writing
Cadence
Mercy in the exercise of authority or power; leniency toward an offender or enemy
Clemency
A funeral song or lament; any song or poem expressing mourning
Dirge
The quality of being thrifty; not spending or using unnecessarily
Frugality
A break or interruption in something; a gap; a pause
Hiatus
Extreme poverty
Penury
Condition of the soul lost in eternal punishment
Perdition
The act of stealing and using the ideas or writings of another as one’s own
Plagiarism
A person or thing that goes before and heralds the coming of another person or thing; one who precedes another in a course or office
Precursor
Authoritative permission for an action
Penalty imposed to encourage compliance to law
Sanction
The direction of an object through space
A course taken
Trajectory
Two
Di-
Apart, aside
Se-
Life
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