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Reading 8 List 15 Flashcards

1
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Anathema

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A detested person, and accused person

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Ascetic

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Practices rigorous self-discipline

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Benign

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Pleasant and beneficial , kindness

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Chronicler

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A storytelling

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5
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Condemned

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Strongly disapproved, pronounced guilty

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Culprit

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Criminal

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Deleterious

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Harmful

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Diminution

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Diminishing, going down, becoming less

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Droll

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Comical in an odd or whimsical manner

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Enigmatic

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Not clear to the understanding

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Exigent

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Urgent, requiring precise accuracy, demanding attention

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Fecund

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Capable of producing offspring or vegetation, intellectually productive

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Garrulity

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The quality of being wordy or talkative

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Iconoclastic

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Someone who attacks cherished ideas of traditional institutions, a destroyer of religious images

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Incompetent

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Not qualified or suited for purpose, not doing a good job not meeting requirements

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Innocuous

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Not injurious to physical and mental health, not causing disapproval

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Irrational

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Not consistent or within real reason

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Lucrative

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Producing a sizable profit

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Motif

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Theme or idea

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Nefarious

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Extremely wicked

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Oblique

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Slanting, inclining away from what’s proper

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Palatial

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Suitable for a palace, palace-like

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Paucity

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Insufficient quantity or number

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Pious

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Showing reverence or respect for a diety or God

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Practical

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Put to a useful purpose

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Pretentious

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Arrogant, intended to attract attention

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Prolific

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Intellectually productive, bearing an abundance of offspring

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Prurient

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Having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters, lust

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Rancor

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Feeling deep bitter anger

30
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Reprimand

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To criticize or rebuke formally

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Ruse

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Deceptive moves in order to avoid being caught

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Skeptical

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Doubtful

33
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Surfeit

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Excessively full

34
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Temperament

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Usual mood or character

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Trenchant

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Vigorous, forceful, keen

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Unambiguous

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Having a single clear defined meaning

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Unerring

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Not prone to errors

38
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Upheaval

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Ride or violent disturbance

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Vexatious

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Causing irritation or annoyance

40
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Vulnerable

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Prone to being hurt, easy

41
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Zephyr

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Greek god of west wind, slight wind

42
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Adapt

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Make fit for

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