Vocab 12 Flashcards by R ☆ | Brainscape

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Elegiac

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Expressing sorrow often for something now past

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Fecund

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Fruitful in offspring or vegetation

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Infirmity

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The state of being weak in health or body

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Malady

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Any ailment or disease of the body

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Nuance

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A subtle difference in appearance, meaning, sound

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Profligate

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Spending a lot of money or using something in a way that is wasteful

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Remonstrance

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A complaint to someone or about something

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Scintillate

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To emit sparks

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Terse

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Brief and unfriendly

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Vitiate

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To destroy or impair the validity of something

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