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PW VOCAB 1-7 Flashcards

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ridiculously old-fashioned

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Antediluvian

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Approval or praise

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Approbation

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distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status

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Caste

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A person or nation engaged in fighting during a war

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Combatants

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The branch of law concerned with the preparations of documents for the transferring of property

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Conveyancing

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The customary code of polite behavior in society or among members of a particular profession or group

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Etiquette

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Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable

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Formidable

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A period of two weeks

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Fortnight

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A small settlement, generally one smaller than a village

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Hamlet

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Incapable of making mistakes or being wrong

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Infallible

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A clumsy, stupid person

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Lummox

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The fact or condition of being magnanimous; generosity

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Magnanimity

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Ostentatiously rich and luxurious or lavish: Wealth

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Opulent

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The quality of being religious or reverent

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Piety

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An earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered

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Precedent

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A member or follower of any Western Christian churches that are separate from the Roman Catholic Church

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Protestants

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An act of retaliation: The forcible seizure of a foreign subject or their goods as an act of retaliation

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Reprisals

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Ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly

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Supplicating

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Full of difficulty or tribulation

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Torrid

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A person who is staying or working in a place for only a short time

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Transients

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Leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others

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Hegemony

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The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region:

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Vernacular

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The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vice

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Satire

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One’s opponent in a contest, conflict, or dispute

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Adversaries

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Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior

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Capricious

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A child believed to have been secretly substituted by fairies for the parents’ real child infancy

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Changelings

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A conflict, or war

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Conflagration

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Ready to accept control or instruction; submissive

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Docile

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Deceive, trick: A victim deception

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Dupe

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An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned

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Epithet

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Express strong disapproval or disagreement

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Expostulated

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irritable and quarrelsome

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Fractious

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Make rude and mocking remarks, typically in a loud voice: A rude mocking remark

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Jeers

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Very vivid in color, especially so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect: (of a description) presented in vividly shocking or sensational terms, especially giving explicit details of crime or sexual matters

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Lurid

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Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree

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Obsequiousness

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Stating or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so

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Ostensible

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Action or speech that makes someone annoyed or angry, especially deliberately

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Provocation

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the authority to represent someone else, especially in voting: A figure that can be used to represent the value of something in a calculation

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Proxy

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The forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence: Investment in stocks, property, or other venture in the hope of gain but with the risk of loss

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Speculations

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A person who takes a position of power or importance illegally by force

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Usurper

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A number of bullets, arrows, or other projectiles discharged at one time

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Volley

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Increasing in size or importance:

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Ascending

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Harshness of tone or manner

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Asperity

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Arithmetic

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Cipher

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A soldier armed with grenades or a grenade launcher

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Grenadier

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UNABLE TO BE PLEASED

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Implacability

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A person’s natural tendency or urge to act or feel in a particular way

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Inclination

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Inconvenience(someone)

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Incommode

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Not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of something

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Incongruous

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Wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy

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Indolent

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an embarkment built to prevent the overflow of a river

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Levee

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The crux or central point of a matter

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Nub

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(of a person’s face) pale, typically because of poor health

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Pallid

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A person, especially a young one, endowed with exceptional qualities or abilities

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Prodigies

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Remarkably or impressively great in extent size, or degree: Unnatural or abnormal

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Prodigious

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Having or proceeding from an extreme or fanatical support or belief in something

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Rabid

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Make or become hard or solid

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Solidified

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Drink alcohol, especially habitually

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Tippling

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(especially in a woman) the quality of being attractively lively and animated

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Vivacity

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Habitual; usual

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Wonted

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a long or rambling story

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Yarn

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