Test Flashcards by pat dunleavy | Brainscape

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Tempest

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A violent storm with high winds

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Martial

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Relating to war

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Implore

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Ask or beg earnestly, plead

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Pensive

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Thinking deeply or seriously

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Lament

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Feel sorrow for, mourn

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Inanimate

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Not alive, lifeless

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Venerable

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Commanding respect

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Pathos

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Quality that arouses pity, sorrow, or sympathy in others

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Impertinent

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Not showing proper respect, saucy

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Obstinacy

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Stubbornness

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Imperceptible

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Not easy to perceive, unnoticeable

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Importunate

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Insistent

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Munificent

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Generous

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Equivocal

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Having more than one possible interpretation

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Specious

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Seeming to be not actually sound

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Anomalous

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Out of the ordinary

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Sentience

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Capacity for feeling

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Stealthily

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Slowly so as to avoid notice

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Exasperation

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Annoyance, frustration

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Impulsively

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Spontaneously

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Fastidious

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Careful, meticulous

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Cavernous

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Cave-like, vast

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Propitious

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Favorably inclined or disposed