V1 Flashcards by Jhon Dimac | Brainscape

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Jeremiad

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Mournful complaint

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Dyspeptic

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Terrible digestive feeling

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Ineluctable

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Unescapable

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Sanguine

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Cheerfully optimistic; bloody

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Scylla and Charybdis

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An allusion from “the odyssey” describing a situation when two perilous alternatives exist.

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Spartan

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Brave;austere

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Bemused

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Confused

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Circumlocution

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A roundabout expression

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Conciliatory

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Expressing good will

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Effusive

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Overflowing; expressing unrestrained emotion

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Glibly

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Spoken thoughtlessly, smoothly or insincerely

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Impurtunate

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Urgently persistent in solicitation

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Inexorably

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Unrelentingly, unrelentingly; unalterably

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Solemnity

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Earnestness; state I formality

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