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Vocab 1 Flashcards

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Abeyance

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Temporary inactivity

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Aberration

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Departing from the right normal or usual course a delusion

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Acerbic

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Tart, sour

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Acuity

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Sharpness

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Admonish

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To warn to caution

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Adroit

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Skillful

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Aesthete

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A person who has good taste in toward the beauties of art or nature

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Altruistic

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Considerate

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Ameliorate

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To improve

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Amorphous

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Formless

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Antediluvian

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Old

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Apocryphal

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False

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Arable

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Farmable

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Ascetic

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Self-denying religious reasons

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Assuage

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Smooth relive to erase to Make better

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Atrophy

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Decaying of the human body

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Avarice

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Extreme greed for wealth

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Aviary

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Bird sanctuary

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Avow

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Acknowledge admit confess

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Bilk

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To Cheat swindler fraud

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Broach

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To introduce a new idea

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Buttress

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External support

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Celerity

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Swiftness speed

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Charlatan

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Fraud a person who claims to have to knowledge than he or she possesses

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Cherubic

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Angelic pretty rosy checks

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Churlish

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Impolite rude mean difficult to deal with

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Circuitous

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Indirect

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Clandestine

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Private

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Commensurate

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Equivalent

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Concomitant

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Contributing

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