Lit./LA- Unit 2 Vocab Flashcards by Layla Dominguez

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Quick, superficial, perfunctory

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Cursory

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Careful, fastidious, painstaking, fussy

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Meticulous

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Risk, hazard, peril

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Jeopardy

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Workable, practicable, viable

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Feasible

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To revert; to degenerate, decline

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Retrogress

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Fraud, double-dealing

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Duplicity

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Devastation; annihilation

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Holocaust

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A longing for things past; homesickness

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Nostalgia

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Impenetrable; resistant, proof against

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Impervious

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An impulse, incentive, stimulus, spur

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Impetus

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Disinclined, opposed, loath

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Averse

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Congenial, neighborly, cordial

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Amicable

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A pained expression, facial contortion

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Grimace

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Lukewarm; insipid; half hearted, wishy-washy

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Tepid

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The purest essence; a paragon, exemplar

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Quintessence

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Kindly, benign, well meaning

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Benevolent

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To inspect, examined, pour over

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Scrutinize

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Clever, deft, dexterous, slick

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Adroit

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To glorify, applaud, acclaim, hail

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Extol

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Aggressive, combative, pugnacious

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Belligerent