Poe Vocab Flashcards by spencer kaplan | Brainscape

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Surcease

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The end or stopping

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Entreat

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To beg

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Implore

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To plead

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Beguile

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To deceive

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Ungainly

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Unattractive

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Undaunted

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Fearless; brave

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Palid

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Pale

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Precipitous

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Very steep

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Importunate

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Persistent

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Munificient

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Very generous

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Equivocal

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Vague; unclear

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Specious

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Deceptively attractive

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Cadaverous

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Resembling a corpse

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Vivacious

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Lively

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Emaciated

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Skeletal; undernourished

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Futility

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Ineffectiveness

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Singular

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Unusual; strange

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Allude

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To suggest; to indirectly reference

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Inexplicable

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Difficult or impossible to explain

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Vagary

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Wild or unpredictable thought or action