Night List One Flashcards

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Billeted

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Noun: a lodge or house
Verb: to lodge or house
Adjective: house-like
Billeter(noun) billet(verb)

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Diplomacy

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Noun: negotiations and relations

Diplomat(noun) diplomatic(adjective)

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Ghetto

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Noun: region of a city where people of a certain ethnic group are
Adjective: inferior or cheap

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Treatise

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Noun: a written work on a formal subject, such as an essay or thesis

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Anecdotes

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Noun: short, intriguing stories

Anecdotal(adjective)

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Deportation

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Noun: expulsion
Synonym-banishment
Deport(verb)

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Hermetically

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Adverb: sealed airtight

Hermetical(adjective)

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Pious

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Adjective: religious
Synonym-reverent
Piously(adverb) piousness(noun)

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Abominable

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Adjective: bad, repulsive, horrible

Abominably(adverb)

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Truncheon

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Noun: club
Verb: to club

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Incite

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Verb: to start, to encourage, to stir

Synonym-provoke, instigate

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Monocle

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Noun: eye glass for one eye

Monocled(adjective)

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Paternal

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Adjective: relating to a father

Paternally(adverb) paternity(noun)

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Notorious

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Adjective: known for being bad
Synonym-infamous
Notoriously(adverb) notoriousness(noun)

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Harangued

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Adjective: threatened or scolded verbally

Harangue(verb)

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Colic

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Noun: pain of the abdomen and bowels

Colicky(adjective)

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Reverie

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Noun: a daydream

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Base

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Adjective: awful, dirty
Synonym-vile
Basely(adverb) baseness(noun)