The Sound And The Fury Vocab Flashcards

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Obverse

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A counterpart or complement

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Impervious

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Incapable of being penetrated

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Ubiquitous

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Everywhere

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Spurious

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False

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Approbation

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Praise, official approval

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Peripatetic

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Traveling on foot

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Canaille

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Riffraff

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Fecundity

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Fertility, productivity

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Niggardly

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Miserly

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Chimaera

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Wild imagination or fancy

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Acrimony

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Bitterness

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Cupola

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Domed roof

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Myriad

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A vast number, innumerable

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Apotheosis

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A glorified example

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15
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Blackguard

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Scoundrel

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Desiccate

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To dry out

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Mote

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Speck

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Nefarious

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Infamous because of extreme wickedness

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Supine

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Lying on ones back

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Sublimate

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To transform

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Chicanery

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Trickery, desception

22
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Reducto absurdom

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In logic, the proof of something by showing that it’s opposite is foolish or impossible