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Princess Bride Vocab 1 Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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Hovel

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A small dirty house

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2
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Inconceivable

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Unbelievable; Incredible

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Haggled

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To wrangle, dispute, or cavil

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Syllogism

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Formal agruement

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Careening

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Going forward quickly

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Impasse

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Situation in which nothing is probable

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Sophistry

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Reason or agruement that’s sounds eighth but is actually false

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Fallacy

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Wrong belief

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Casuistry

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Resolving a part of connections

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Specious

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Appearing to be true but really false

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