Things Fall Apart Flashcards

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Approbation

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Praise or approval

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Benevolent

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Generous and kind

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Malevolent

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Desiring to harm another

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Callow

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Immature, lacking sophistication

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Capricious

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Changing suddenly, impossible to predict, acting on impulse rather than on reason

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Delectable

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Delicious, highly pleasing

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Enthrall

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Hold as spellbound; to hold attention by being extremely attractive or exciting

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Esoteric

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Understood only by a certain group; hard to understand

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Guttural

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Sound formed in the throat; usually considered strange or unattractive

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Harbinger

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Something that foreshadows what is to come

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Improvident

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Not providing or saving for the future

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Incipient

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Beginning to develop or exist

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Malicious

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Intending to cause harm to another

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Specious

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Falsely appearing to be fair, just, right or true

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Sprightly

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Full of life and energy, lively

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Voluble

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Talking in a continuous flow of words