p.w vocab Flashcards

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1
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increasing in size or importance

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Ascending

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2
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Harsh tone

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Asperity

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3
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Math/Arithmetic

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Cipher

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4
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a soldier armed with grenades or a grenade launcher

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Grenadier

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5
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unable to be comforted

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  1. 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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7
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inconvenience

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incommode

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8
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not in harmony or keeping with the Surrounding or aspects of something

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incongruous

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9
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wanting to avoid activity

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indolent

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10
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The crux/central point

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Nub

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11
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pale due to poor healt

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pallid

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12
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a person who is young capable of exceptional qualities or abilities.**

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prodigies

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13
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Remarkable**

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Rabid

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14
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Become hard or solid

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Solidified

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15
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Drinking alcohol due to habit

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Tippling

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16
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Quality of being attractive, lively, and animated

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vivacity

17
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Habitual

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wonted

18
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Long rambling story, especially one that is implausible

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Yarns

19
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opponent

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Adversaries

20
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given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior

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Capricious

21
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child believed to have been secretly substituted by fairies for the parents’ real child in infancy

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changeling

22
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conflict or war

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conflagration

23
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ready to accept control

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Docile

24
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decive

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dupe

25
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adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing

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epithet