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The Joy Luck Club Twenty-six Maligant Gates Flashcards

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Curio shops

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Stores that sell souvenirs and tourist items

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Imparted

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Passed on

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Dim sum

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Small stuffed dumplings

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Eluded

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Escape the notice of

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Solemnity

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Seriousness

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Toilet water

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Cologne

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Relented

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Gave in

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Adversaries

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Opponents

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Obscured

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Kept hidden

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Hopalong Cassidy

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Cowboy television star from the early years in tv

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Benevolently

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Kindly

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Diminishing

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Decreasing

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Etiquette

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Rules of manner and behavior

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Humility

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Modesty

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Tao society

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A neighborhood group named after Chinese mystical philosophy called Taoism

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Grand master

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Position of high achievement in chess

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Plaited

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Braided

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Phlegmy

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Mucous filled

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Malodorous

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Bad smelling

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Made many concessions

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Gave in on many points

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Morbid

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Gruesome

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Barricaded

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Blocked

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Chasm

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A deep gulf in the earth

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War bride

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A foreign woman who is forced to leave his or her country because of war

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Shwo buchulai

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Words cannot come out

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Shemma yisz

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What meaning?

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Renovated

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Fixed up (a house)

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Bolted

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Dashed

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Jauntily

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In a lively manner

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Mei gwansyi

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It doesn’t matter

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Swagger

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Arrogance/cockiness

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Chagrined

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Disappointed

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Brashness

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Rash assertiveness

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Assuredness

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Confidence

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Opinionated

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Being sure you’re right and not listening to other opinions

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Waigoren

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Foreigners

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Verbatim

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Word for word

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Co-conspirator

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Person who helps devise a plan ( often a dangerous or illegal one)

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Conjoined

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Connected

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Contras

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Anti-government rebel group in Nicaragua

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Rift

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Emotional separation

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Celestial

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Heavenly

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Revelation

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Eye-opening information

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Secluded

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Hidden

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Nengkan

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Ability to do anything you put your mind too

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Crevices

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Cracks

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Dangsying tamende shenti

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Take care of them

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Yiding

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You must

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Shards

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Fragments

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Orbs

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Circles/ spheres

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Coveting

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Craving

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Prodigy

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Highly talented child

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Ni kan

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You watch

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Lamented

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Said sadly

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Reproach

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Blame

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Mesmerizing

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Hypnotizing

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Lilting

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Spirited (music)

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Sonatas

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Classical music in 3 parts usually focusing on one instrument

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Trills

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Two notes played quickly back and forth

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Arpeggios

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Chords played note by note

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Preludes

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Short opening pieces of classical music

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Discordant

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Disagreeable- sounding

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Dutifully

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Motivated by duty

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Conspired

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Secretly planned

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Spinet

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A kind of piano

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Stricken

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Hurt

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Devastated

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Destroyed

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Gawkers

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People who stare

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Fiasco

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Failure

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