List #56 Flashcards

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renascent

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showing new life

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extemporize

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improvise

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deflect

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turn away, bend

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pugilist

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boxer

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excrescence

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abnormal outgrowth

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casuistry

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specious reasoning

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infirmity

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feebleness

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recumbent

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reclining

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abmonitory

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warning

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incorribible

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not correctable

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metamorphosis

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change of shape

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pathogen

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disease-causer

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sine qua non

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essential element

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emollient

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softener

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melancholy

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dark sadness

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