List 4 Flashcards

1
Q

Revealing hostility and a readiness to fight

A

Belligerence

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2
Q

Intonation of the voice

Measured movement, such as in music and writing

A

Cadence

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3
Q

Mercy in the exercise of authority or power; leniency toward an offender or enemy

A

Clemency

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4
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A funeral song or lament; any song or poem expressing mourning

A

Dirge

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5
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The quality of being thrifty; not spending or using unnecessarily

A

Frugality

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6
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A break or interruption in something; a gap; a pause

A

Hiatus

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7
Q

Extreme poverty

A

Penury

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8
Q

Condition of the soul lost in eternal punishment

A

Perdition

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9
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The act of stealing and using the ideas or writings of another as one’s own

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Plagiarism

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10
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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

A

Precursor

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11
Q

Authoritative permission for an action

Penalty imposed to encourage compliance to law

A

Sanction

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12
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The direction of an object through space

A course taken

A

Trajectory

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13
Q

Two

A

Di-

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14
Q

Apart, aside

A

Se-

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15
Q

Life

A

BIO

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16
Q

To live

A

VIV

17
Q

In the manner of

A

-ly