LIT AND COMP FLASHCARDS

Question 1

Eloquence

Answer 1

Ease in using words to the best affect

Question 2

Despondent

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Feeling or showing deep hopelessness, discouragement, or gloom.

Question 3

Perpetuate

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To cause to continue

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Provincial

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Having/showing viewpoints and manners that are unsophisticated

Question 5

Verge

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The limit or point at which something beings to occur

Question 6

Manipulated

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To influence skillfully

Question 7

Stickler

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A person who insisted on something, usually a rule follower

Question 8

Abruptly

Answer 8

Sudden or unexpected

Question 9

Faltering

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To hesitate or waver, to be unsteady

Question 10

Brandishing

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To shake or wave a weapon

Question 11

Disperse

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To spread in various directions

Question 12

Ultimatum

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A final demand

Question 13

Composure

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Self-controlled, calm state of mind

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Resolve

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To come to a definite decision

Question 15

Cajoled

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To persuade by flattery or promises

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Rendered

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To cause or become; to do

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Agitator

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A person who stirs up others in order to upset a situation

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Inducement

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A motivating or persuading incentive

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Glumly

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Sullen, gloomy, dejected

Question 20

Affirmation

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The act or insistence that something is true

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Opposition

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A group of people opposing someone

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Deranged

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Insane

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Grisly

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Horrible, Gruesome

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Creed

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A system of belief, usually religious

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Abolishing

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To do away with, to put an end to

Question 26

Turbulent

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Being in a state of disturbance

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Obscurity

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Being Unknown

Question 28

Contribution

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The act of giving