Vocab 1 Flashcards

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Chastity

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Purity from unlawful sexual intercourse

Exclusion of excess or extravagance; moderation; modesty; restraint

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Prudish

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Excessively demure or modest, especially with regard to sexual matters

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Congenial

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Agreeable, suitable, or pleasuring in nature or character; compatible

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Immutable

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Unmovable, unchangeable

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Prostrate

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To cast oneself face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration; to lay flat as on the ground; to reduce to physical weakness or exhaustion

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Remonstrate

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To say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval

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Vouchsafe

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To grant or give or allow by favor, graciousness, or condensation

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Diminutive

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Small, little, tiny

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Desultory

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Disconnected, random, digressing from the main subject

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Impetuous

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Characterized by rash action or sudden action; moving with great force, violence

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Imperious

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Dictatorial, overbearing; urgent, imperative

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Homely

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Unattractive, not beautiful; plain; proper or suited to the home/domestic life

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Flippant

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frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity

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Piquant

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Agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart; lively

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Deprecatory

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Expressing disapproval, protest, or depreciation; apologetic

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Insidious

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intended to entrap or beguile; stealthily treacherous or deceitful

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Impervious

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no permitting penetration or passage, impenetrable; incapable of being injured or impaired; incapable of being influenced or persuaded or affected

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Capricious

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subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic

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Uncanny

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having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis, beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary

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Supercilious

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highly disdainful or contemptuous as a person or facial expression