Odyssey Vocab 1-2 Flashcards

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Showing a brooding ill humor

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Morose

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Wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred; having or exerting a malignant influence

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Malevolent

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Made amends to for loss or harm or suffering

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Recompensed

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Angered at something unjust or wrong

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Incensed

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Characteristic of or peculiar to a woman

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Distaff

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Characterized by plundering or pillaging

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Marauding

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Loud and persistent outcry from many people; allowed harsh or strident noise

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Clamor

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A corrupt or depraved or did generous act or practice; Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

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Depravity

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The state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination; and unimportant standing; not well-known; the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand

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Obscurity

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Takes great pleasure or delight

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Revels

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The action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit; The violation of law or a duty or moral principle; the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strada over terrestrial strata

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Transgression

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Marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

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Astute

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Causing difficulty in finding an answer or solution; much disputed; troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances

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Vexed

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Loud and clear; in mid evil brass instrument with a clear shrill tone

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Clarion

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Takers of goods by force, those who sees wrongfully or by force

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Plunderers

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A for bothering about what is about to happen; a sign of something about to happen; indicate by signs

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Presage

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The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them); The quality of being crafty; Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

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Guile

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Makes private or sensitive information known

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Divulges

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Unpleasantly loud and harsh; disturbing the public peace; loud and rough

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Raucous

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Lecture at length in an aggressive in critical manner

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Harangues

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Pleasant and beneficial and nature or influence; kindness of disposition or manner; not dangerous to health; not reoccurrent or progressive

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Benign

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A pernicious in malign Influence that is hard to get rid of; any epidemic disease with a high death rate

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Pestilence

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Predict from an omen; indicate by signs

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Augur

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Foul and run-down and repulsive; morally degraded

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Squalid

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To smirk contemptuously

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Fleer