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Summer Exam Vocab Flashcards

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Harridan

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Strict bossy old woman

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Caterwaul

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A shrill howling noise, like a cat

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Sybiotic Relationship

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Close relationship, connected

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Machination

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Evil plot or scheme

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Ochre (colour)

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pale yellow - deep red, earthy soil colour

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Quixotry

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Wild idea/notion

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Blitz (destroy)

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Intense attack

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Lackadaisical

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Lacking enthusiasm, lazy

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Slatternly

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Dirty, untidy woman

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Cudgel (metaphor)

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Short thick stick used as a weapon

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Bolshie

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Uncooperative (attitude)

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Urchin

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Young child thats poorly dressed

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Gallus

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Bold, cheeky or flashy

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Agog

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Very eager to hear or see something

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Hallmark (qualities)

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metaphor - A mark indicating excellence or quality)

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Coequality

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State of being exactly the same in quantity or quality

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Pillory

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Attack or ridicule publically

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Disenfranchise

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Deprive someone of a right

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Inexorable

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Impossible to prevent

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Unctuous

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Greasy, soapy (metaphor for a personality)

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Epithets

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Used as a term of abuse

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Akrasia

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Someone acting against their better judgement

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Paterfamilias

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Male head of a family or household

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Laconic Questioning

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Using few brief words to question (Laconic - Expressing much in few words)

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Iconoclastic

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trying to attack and overthrow traditional or popular ideas or beliefs

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Recalcitrant

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Stubbornly resistant and defiant of authority

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Perdition

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Complete loss, loss of your soul, utter destruction

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Dithyramb

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A wildly enthusiastic piece of writing or speech

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Blasé

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Unconcerned or nonchalant attitude

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