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Of Mice And Men Vocabulary Flashcards

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Appreciate

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To increase in value

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Aloof

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Apart, indifferent

Synonyms: detached, incurious, unconcerned

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Apprehend

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To seize, arrest, take into custody; or understand, become aware of

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Belligerent

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Waging war; inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness

Synonyms: bellicose, pugnacious, combative, contentious, quarrelsome

Nonhuman

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Bemuse

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To confuse or bewilder

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Brittle

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Fragile, frail, easily damaged

Synonyms: frangible, friable

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Complacency

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State of being self satisfied

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Derision

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Scoffing at, mockery, ridicule

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Imperious

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Extremely overbearing

Synonyms: domineering, imperative, masterful, preemptory

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Indignation

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Anger as a result of something unjust

Synonyms: fury, ire, rage, wrath

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Juncture

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A point of joining

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Mollify

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To soothe or appease, assuage

Synonyms: appease, conciliate, pacify, placate, propitiate

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Monotony

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Sameness

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Morose

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Being sullen or gloomy

Synonyms: crabbed, glum, saturnine, sulky, surly

Depressed

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Mottled

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Marked with spots of different color

Synonyms: spotted, blotched

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Ominous

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Threatening

Synonyms: fateful, portentous

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Plaintive

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Mournful and expressing sorrow

Sad

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Pugnacious

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Looking for a fight, combative, belligerent

Synonyms: bellicose, contentious, quarrelsome

Human

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Relish

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To take great pleasure or delight in

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Reprehensible

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Deserving blame or reprimand

Synonyms: blameworthy, censureable, condemnable, reprobatory

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Revere

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To honor, to regard with respect

Synonyms: adore, venerate, worship

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Scuttle

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To sink–usually a ship

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Slough

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To cast off

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Stilted

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Artificially formal, stiff, pompous

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Wispy

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Small in amount, fragile, or slight

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