Reading 8 Vocab List 7

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Compunction

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Great regret usually for a bad deed

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Cantankerous

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Irritable, stubbornly disobedient and unyielding

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Conviction

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The final judgement for a person accused guilty/to old strong belief in something without any evidence

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Deferential

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To have deference or respect

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Didactic

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Excessively instructive

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Emigration

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Migrating from ones native place to settle in another

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Fallacious

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Of misleading information/meant to deceive

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Evanescent

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Temporary like vapor

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Impugn

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Attack as false or wrong

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Ingenuity

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The power of a creative imagination

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Inure

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Caused to accept and get harder to/habituate

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Legerdemain

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Magic or illusory

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Mercurial

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Changeable/unpredictable

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Mitigate

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To assuage or make effort to lessen

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Myriad

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Infinite numbers/too large to be counted

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Odious

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Hateful/unequivocally detestable

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Ostensibly

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Apparently from outer appearance alone

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Paragon

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Perfection like no other

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Pensive

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Showing thoughtful sadness

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Pervasive

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Widespread/spreading out

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Plausible

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Apparently reasonable and valid

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Predicament

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A difficult situation

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Proscribe

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Disallow or forbid

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Quack

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A fraud or fake

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Reciprocity

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Being of state or relation

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Reminiscence

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A memory

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Resignation

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Something that indicates one gave up/quit/resigned

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Staid

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Respectable/not taking risks

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Synthesize

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To combine to make more complex

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Torpid

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Slow and apathetic

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Turpitude

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A shameful act

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Unnerving

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Intimidating/inspiring for

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Variegated

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Having a variety of colors

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Viscous

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Sticky and adhesive/has a high resistance to flow

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Whimsical

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By chance or luck