Vocab 12 Flashcards by Lauren Baiza | Brainscape

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nirvana

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a condition of great peace or happiness

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salutary

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Healthful, wholesome

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Despicable

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Contemptible, hateful

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Harlequin

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A clown

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Empathy

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An understanding of another’s feelings

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Brevity

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Briefness, short duration

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Savant

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A person of extensive learning, an eminent scholar

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Obsequios

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Excessively submissive or overly attentive

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Redundant

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Repetitious, using more words than needed

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Offal

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Garbage, waste parts

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Hoi polloi

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The common people, the masses

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Sentient

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Conscious, capable of feeling or perceiving

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Impinge

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To encroach, to trespass

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Cataract

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A large waterfall

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Animosity

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Hatred

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