Night Vocab Flashcards
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Truncheon
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- N
- a club
- Other forms: Truncheon (Vt)
2
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Incite
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- Vt
- To cause someone to act in an angry, harmful, or violent way
- Other forms: Incited, inciting, incitement
3
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Monocle
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- N
- A single eyeglass
4
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Paternal
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- Adj
- Of or relating to a father
- Paternally
5
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Notorious
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- Adj
- Well-known or famous, especially for something bad
- Syn: Infamous
- Other Forms: notoriously, notority
6
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Harangued
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- V
- To speak to someone in a forceful or angry way
- Other Forms: harangue, haranguing
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Colic
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- N
- A sharp and sudden pain in the stomach
- Other Form: Colicky
8
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Reverie
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- N
- A state in which you are thinking about pleasant things (Daydreaming)
9
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Base
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- Adj
- Morally low and dishonorable
- Syn: Vile
- Other Forms: basely, baseness
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Diplomacy
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- N
- Peaceful discussion to reach an agreement
- Other Forms: diplomat, diplomatic, diplomate
11
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Billeted
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- Tv
- To house something
- Other Forms: billeting, billeter, billet
12
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Ghetto
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- N
- The poorest part of a city when the people are isolated (ethnically or economically)
- Other Forms: ghettoize, ghettoization
13
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Treatise
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- N
- A written discussion
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Anecdotes
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- N
- A short story about an interesting or funny event
- Other Forms: anecdotal, anecdotage, anecdotalist, anecdotition
15
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Deportation
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- N
- Expulsion of a person from a country
- Syn: banishment
- Other Forms: deportable, deportee, deportment
