❤️ Of ⚫️ (1) Flashcards by Anna Wipperfurth

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Ascetic

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Person who practices severe self discipline

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Benign

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Gentle kindly

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Diaphanous

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Light delicate translucent

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Profound

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Very great or intense thought

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Venerable

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Accorded a great deal of respect

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Rotund

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Plump

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Sedentary

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Tending to spend much time seated

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Propensity

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An inclination or natural tendency to behave in a certain way

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Calamity

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Event causing great of sudden distress

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Somnambulist

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Sleep walking

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Scrutinize

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Examine closely

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Erroneous

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Wrong

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Emissary

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Person sent on special mission

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Sordid

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Involving ignoble actions and motives

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Languid

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Slow and relaxed

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Lugubrious

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Looking or sounding sad and dismal

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Declivity

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A downward slope

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Alacrity

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Brick cheerful readiness

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Obliquely

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Not in a direct way

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Efface

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Erase from surface

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Elicit

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Evoke or draw out

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Yokel

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Uneducated people from the countryside

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Imbecile

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Stupid person

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Gesticulate

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Uses gesture

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Exuberant

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Filled by lively energy and excitement

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Estuary

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Partly enclosed coastal body of water