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Units 6 & 7 Flashcards

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Bruit

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Noise abroad, broadcast, blazon

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Abortive

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Miscarried, fruitless, premature

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Contumelious

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Humiliating, vituperative, scurrilous, excoriating

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Dictum

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Maxim, precept, aphorism, axiom

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Ensconce

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nestle, lodge, entrench

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Iconoclastic

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Image-breaking, irreverent, heretical

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In medias res

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In the middle of things

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Internecine

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Mutually destructive, murderous, savage, ruinous,

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Maladroit

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Inept, awkward, clumsy, gauche

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Maudlin

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Mushy, mawkish

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Modulate

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Temper, soften, adjust, regulate, adapt, moderate

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Portentous

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Pompous, foreboding, ominous, pretentious

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Prescience

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Foresight, foreknowledge

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Quid pro quo

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Swap, trade

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Salubrious

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Wholesome, beneficial, healthy, invigorating

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Saturnalian

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Dissipated, debauched, orgiastic

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Touchstone

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Criterion, yardstick, benchmark

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Traumatic

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Jolting

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Vitiate

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Weaken, debase, corrupt, degrade, undermine

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Wagging

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Droll, whimsical, jocular

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Abeyance

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Suspended, deferment, postponement, suspension

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Ambivalent

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Equivocal, ambiguous, of two minds

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Beleaguer

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Surround, harass, trouble, besiege, encircle, pester

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Carte Blanche

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Blank check, free rein

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Cataclysm

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Deluge, disaster, catastrophe

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Debauch

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Seduce, carouse, spree, orgy

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Éclat

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Great brilliance, celebrity

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Fastidious

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Easily disgusted, precise, meticulous, exacting, finicky

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Gambol

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Frolic, romp, cavort, caper

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Imbue

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Infuse, instill, inculcate

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Inchoate

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Just beginning, incipient, embryonic, rudimentary

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Lampoon

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Satire, satirize, ridicule, burlesque, parody

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Malleable

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Pliable, impressionable, adaptable

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Nemesis

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Unbeaten rival, comeuppance, avenger

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Opt

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Choose, select, decide,

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Philistine

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Boorish, lowbrow, yahoo

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Picaresque

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Roguish, rascally, rakish

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Queasy

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Nauseated, uneasy, troubled, unsettled

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Refractory

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Stubborn, unruly, disobedient, willful, mulish

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Savoir-faire

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Social competence, tact, finesse, suavity, sophistication

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