Unit 7 Flashcards

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Over-trusting, innocent, naive, credulous

A

Gullible

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To crush, suppress

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Quash

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3
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A casualty, mortality

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Fatality

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To fib, stretch the truth, equivocate

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Prevaricate

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To spend, consume, use up; to disburse

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Expend

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Moving, distressing, pitiable, heartrending

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Pathetic

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To cut apart, analyze, examine

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Dissect

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To plug away, pursue, stick to it

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Persevere

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Provoking, incendiary, provocative

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Inflammatory

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To order, entitle, empower; to approve

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Authorize

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To twist, squirm, thrash

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Writhe

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To delay, loiter, dillydally

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Dawdle

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To dip, plunge, dunk; to engross

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Immerse

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13
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A reminder, note

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Memorandum

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Illegal, unlawful, unauthorized, forbidden

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Illicit

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To remember, recollect, recall

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Reminisce

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Pleasure, gusto; to take delight in

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Relish

17
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Loot, plunder, spoils

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Booty

18
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To scrub, polish; to search, comb

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Scour

19
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An offender, lawbreaker, wrongdoer

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Culprit