Unit 11 Flashcards by haley banta

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To disfigure, misshape, falsify

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Distort

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A satire, travesty, to lampoon, burlesque

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Parody

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To refill, restock, refresh, restore

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Replenish

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Brilliant, blazing

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Meteoric

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Unavoidable, inescapable, fated

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Inevitable

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To rule, reign, to overcome, conquer

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Prevail

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To split, cleave, splinter, tear asunder

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Rend

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Strapping, hefty, beefy, brawny

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Burly

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To be stingy, to scrimp, cut corners

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Skimp

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Determined, untiring, persistant

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Dogged

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Dirt, sand, courage, mettle, to grind

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Grit

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To delve into, sift through, poke around

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Rummage

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Speechless, stunned, flabbergasted

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Dumbfounded

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Petrified remains, a relic

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Fossil

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Died out, vanished

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Extinct

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A detective, investigator

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Sleuth

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To stroll, saunter, a walk, ramble

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Amble

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Willful destructive, malicious defacement

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Vandalism

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An assumed name, pseudonym

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Alias

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Deep-seated, fixed, deep-rooted,indelible

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Ingrained