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Oddball Vocab 6 Flashcards

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Billabong

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Dead-end channel leading out to a river; stream bed full only in the rainy season

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Borscht

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Beet soup, served hot or cold

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Brobdingnagian

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Huge, gigantic, tremendous

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Defenestration

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Throwing a thing or person out the window

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Defunct

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No longer existing or functioning

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Derring-do

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Daring action or heroic deeds

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Disgruntled

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Discontented, ill-humored, sulky

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Farkleberry

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Shrub or tree of the southeastern US with a hard black berry

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Filibuster

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Use of extreme delaying tactics, esp. in a legislative assembly; a lengthy speech, usually lasting all day or several days

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Flibbertigibbet

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A flighty or silly person

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Flummoxed

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Confused, befuddled

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Gobbledygook

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Wordy, unintelligible jargon

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Heebie-jeebies

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Extreme nervousness or uneasiness; the creeps, jitters, willies

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Hemidemisemiquaver

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A 64th note, representing one-sixteenth of a beat

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Hoity-toity

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Arrogant, pretentious, haughty, “putting on airs”

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Hoosegow

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Jail

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Hootenanny

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A gathering at which folk singers entertain, usually with audience participation

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Hornswoggle

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To deceive, swindle, trick, bamboozle

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Masticate

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To chew

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Prestidigitation

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Feats of magic or other arts involving manual skill or dexterity; sleight of hand; trickery

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Schlemiel

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An awkward, unlucky person; loser, chump

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Sesquipedalian

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Having many syllables; long; given to using long words

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Titmouse

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Small US bird related to the chickadee

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Toady

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A fawning flatterer, a “suck-up”

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Aa

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Rough, cindery lava

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