The Crucible Vocabulary One Flashcards
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Ameliorate
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To make become better to improve
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Abrogate
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To abolish do away with
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Augur
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To foretell events by omens
Fortuneteller
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Autocratic
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Unlimited power to an individual
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Conciliatory
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To gain by pleasing acts
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Contentious
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Tending to argument strife
quarrelsome
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Dogmatically
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Strongly expressing opinions as if they are facts
stubbornly sticking to it they think
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Formidable
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Causing fear dread apprehension or awe
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Gaunt
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Sickly thin
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Indigenously
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Natural to specific place
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Ineptly
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Lacking inability
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Inert
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Very slow to move or act
motion
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Ingratiating
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Deliberately meant to gain favor
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Licentious
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Lacking moral discipline or sexual restraint
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Malevolence
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Ill willed mean
