LOF Vocab 1 Flashcards

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Specious

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Falsely appearing to be fair, just, or right; showy

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Recrimination

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A retaliatory accusation

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Creepers

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Plants that grow along to ground or up surfaces

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Furtive

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Done by stealth

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Efflorescence

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The process of developing and unfolding as if coming into flower

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Bastion

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A fortified area or position

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Effulgence

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Radiant splendor

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Festoon

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To decorate; adorn

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Pliant

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Easily influenced; able to bend without breaking

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Proffer

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To offer or give (something) to someone

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Gesticulated

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To make gestures especially when speaking

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Gaudy

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Too bright and heavily decorated; very large or impressive

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Assented

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Agreed to or approval of, especially after carefully thinking about it

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Tacit

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Expressed or carried on without words or speech

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Officious

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Volunteering service where they are not needed; meddlesome

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Belligerence

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An aggressive or truculent attitude, atmosphere or disposition

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Vicissitudes

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The quality or state of being changeable

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Detritus

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Pieces that are left when something breaks, falls apart, is destroyed

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Impalpable

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Incapable of being felt by touch; not readily discerned by the mind

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Susurration

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A whispering sound; murmur