Part One Flashcards

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Taciturn

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Reluctant to talk

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Assuage

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To satisfy someone or something or to make it better

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Apothecary

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Pharmacist

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Vapid

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Uninspired, shallow, lacking energy

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Male violent

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Showing or having a desire to do bad things

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Predilection

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Flavoring something

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Indigenous

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Where something is from

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Entailment

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A nesacery part of something

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Fractious

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To be easily angered

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Disapprobation

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Disapproving

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Flivver

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A small inexpensive auto model

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Auspicious

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Lucky, favorable

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Nebulous

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Hazzie, vague, unclear

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Contentious

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Causing an argument or trouble

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Benign

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Not deadly- usually directed towards a tumor

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Tactic

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Understood without being stated

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Rosetta Stone

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Translator or learning tool of a language

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Aberrations

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Unexpected, not predictable

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Mortify

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To humiliate someone or something

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Philippic

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A bitter act I speach

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Umbrage

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Annoyed/ to take offence

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Libel

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A crime made from writing-untrue and or hurtful information

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Appomattox

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The north one this town in the civil war

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Caricatures

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A picture that humiliates-emphases certain traits of someone

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Lineaments
Certain features that outline a person
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Edification
An improvement of a person
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Ingenuous
Innocent, genuine
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Apoplectic
To have strokes
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Asafetida
From a plant- slickey smelly brown goo
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Mandrake roots
Used as a type of me medicine shaped like a person