Unit 11 Flashcards

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Belated

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Happening later than should have been the case

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Appease

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Pacify or placate (someone) by acceding to their demands

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Calamitous

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Involving calamity; Catastrophic; Disastrous.

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Cite

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Quote as evidence for justification of a argument or statement.

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Conventional

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Based on or in accordance with what is generally done or believed

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Decoy

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A bird or mammal or the imitation of one

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Delve

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Reach inside a receptacle and search for something

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Ensue

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Happen or occur afterward or as a result

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Gallantry

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Courageous behavior

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Impart

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Make known; Communicate

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Judicious

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Having, Showing with good judgement or sense

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Mediate

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Intervene between people in a dispute or order to bring a agreement

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Milieu

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A persons social environment

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Outlandish

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Looking or sounding bizarre or familiar

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Overbearing

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Unpleasantly or arrogantly domineering

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Peer

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Look keenly or with difficultly at someone or something

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Quirk

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A peculiar behavioral habit

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Regale

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Entertain or amuse

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Shiftless

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Characterized by laziness

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Taint

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A trace of bad or undesirable quality or substance