TKAM 3 & 4th Column Flashcards

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A feeling of security often while unaware of impending danger

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Complacency

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Promising success

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Auspicious

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To make lucid or clear, throw light upon

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Elucidate

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Sincere; honest; straightforward

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Guileless

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Quality of being inventive, resourceful

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Ingenuity

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Not perpendicular or parallel, not straight

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Oblique

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Pleasantly calm or peaceful; tranquil

-not easily upset or excited

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Placid

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A person living apart from society

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Recluse

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Expressed in few words

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Succinct

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To envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of another

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Begrudge

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An authoritative pronouncement; a saying; a maxim

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Dictum

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A whetstone of fire, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools (to perfect or make more intense)

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Hone

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Existing from birth

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Innate

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Threatening of bad omen

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Ominous

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Think fondly of something

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Predilection

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Calm and peaceful

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Serene

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Not talking tending to be quiet

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Taciturn