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Vocab 1 Flashcards

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Banal

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Not original; common

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Bellicose

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Eager or willingness to fight; aggressive

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Finesse

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Extreme delicacy, subtitle in action, performance, skill & taste

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Glib

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Readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely

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Pseudonym

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Frictionless name used to conceal his/ her identity

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Lampoon

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Comment or joke made towards an individual or institution

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Lugubrious

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Mournful,dismal or gloomy in an exaggerated manner.

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Nefarious

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Extremely wicked

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Nemesis

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Something a person can not conquer or achieve

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Purloin

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To take dishonestly; steal

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