Unit 7 Vocabulary Workbook Flashcards
1
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Austere
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Severe or stern in manner; without luxury; simple, plain
2
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Beneficent
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Performing acts of kindness or charity
3
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Cadaverous
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pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse
4
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Concoct
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To prepare by combining ingredients; to invent
5
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Crass
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course, stupid
6
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Debase
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to degrade or lower in value/character
7
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Desecrate
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to contaminate
8
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Disconcert
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to confuse
9
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grandiose
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grand; marked by pompous affectation
10
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inconsequential
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trifling or unimportant
11
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infraction
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a breaking of a law or obligation
12
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mitigate
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to lighten the blow, to make milder or softer
13
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pillage
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to rob of goods; to loot
14
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prate
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to talk alot without aim
15
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punctilious
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to be very careful and exact
