Reading List 6 Flashcards
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Adumbrate
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To sketch out in a vague way
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Abjure
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To reject, renounce
2
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Ascetic
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Practicing restraint as means of self-discipline, usually religious
3
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Brusque
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To support, hold up
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Clemency
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Mercy
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Conundrum
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A puzzle, problem
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Defile
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To make uncertain, impure
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Desecrate
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To violate the sacredness of a things or a place
8
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Dissemble
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To conceal or fake
9
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Egregious
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Extremely bad
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Evince
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To show or reveal
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Expunge
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To obliterate, eradicate
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Fatuous
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Silly, foolish, stupid
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Fractious
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Troublesome, irritable
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Hapless
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Unlucky, hopeless
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Ignominious
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Shameful, humiliating, disgraceful
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Impetuous
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Rash, hastily done
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Inconvertible
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Indisputable
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Inimical
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Hostile
