Vocab 1 Flashcards

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Adjunct

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Something added to something else as helpful or useful but not essential; An assistant or helper; a valuable quality or characteristic; added or connected in a subordinate capacity; attached to a facility or staff in an auxiliary captivity

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Bellwether

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A male sheep that leads the flock to the slaughterhouse; a leader is in a desperate or violent undertaking; an indicator of trends

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Caterwaul

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To hollow or screech like a cat; to squirrel a harsh noise cry; a racket

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Chimerical

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Absurd; wildly fantastic; impossible

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Effete

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Lacking in wholesome vigor or energy; worn out or exhausted; sterile or unable to produce; out of date

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Fait Accompli

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An accomplished and Presumably irreversible deed, fact, or action

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Hidebound

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Narrow minded and rigid, especially in opinions or prejudice; stubbornly in under thinking Lee conservative

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Laissez faire

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individual freedom and choice and action

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Liturgy

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A religious service or rite; The form of a ritual or other act of public worship

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Morass

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A patch of low, soft, wet ground; a swamp; a confusing situation in which one is entrapped, as in quicksand

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Noisome

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Offensive or disgusting; foul smelling harmful or injurious

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Oblivious

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Forgetful ; unaware

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Poltroon

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A base coward

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Proselyte

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A covert; a disciple

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Quasi

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Resembling but not actually being; seemly but not actually or completing

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Raillery

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Good-humored ridicule teasing

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Ribald

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Irreverently mocking; course, vulgar, or indecent in language

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Supine

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Laying flat on one’s back; listless or lethargic; apathetic or passive

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Vignette

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A short description or a sketch; a picture or illustration with edges that gradually shade off; a decorative design on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter