Vocab Flashcards by Hannah Moore | Brainscape

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What is a chalice?

A

A drinking cup or goblet

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Chastise

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To discipline, especially by corporal punishment

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Compunctious

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Causing or feeling regret

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Dwindle

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To become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away

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Harbinger

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Anything that foreshadows a future event

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Implored

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To beg urgently or piteously for aid or mercy

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Ingratitude

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State of being ungrateful; unthankfulness

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Interim

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An intervening time; interval; meantime

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Mettle

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Courage or fortitude

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Minion

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Follower or subordinate to a person in power

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Plight

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A condition, state, or situation, especially unfavorable

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Prophetic

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Accurately predicting what will happen in the future

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Surmise

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To think/guess without strong evidence

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Trifles

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A thing of very little value

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Withered

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To shrivel, fade, and/or decay

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