May Vocab List Flashcards

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Penitent

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showing or feeling for wrong doing, repentant

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Affinity

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a likeness, a natural relationship, a kinship

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Candid

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blunt, sincere, honesty

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Loiter

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to stand idly or to linger aimlessly

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Lustrous

A

shining or gleaming without sparkling

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Contempt

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scorn, extreme dislike or disdain

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Disdain

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intense dislike; to treat with scorn or contempt, to reject as unworthy

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Vulgarity

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something offensive to good taste and refinement

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Spurn

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to reject or refuse with hostility

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Insolence

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insulting or contemptuous behavior

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Perpetuate

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to prolong the existence of something

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Ascend

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to move upward, to rise from a lower station

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Despicable

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very bad, contemptible

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Igonimy

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disgraceful or dishonorable conduct

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Obstinancy

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unyielding regardless of reason or logic

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Adamant

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inflexible, immovable, obstinate

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Reticence

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restraint in speech, reluctance to speak

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Obtrude

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to thrust out or thrust forward; to force or impose without warrant or request

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Derision

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scoffing at, mockery, ridicule

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Felicitous

A

happy or delightful