Vocab 14 Flashcards

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Cleave

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To cut or split open, to cling to

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Annex

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To add to, incorporate, attachment

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Cordial

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In a friendly manner, hearty; cheery

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Cornerstone

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Starting point of a building a fundamental principle

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Debacle

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An overwhelming defeat, rout a complete collapse or failure

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Devitalize

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To make weak or lifeless

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Embroil

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To involve in a conflict or difficulty: to throw into confusion

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Exonerate

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To clear from a charge or accusation

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Glib

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Ready and fluent in speech: thoughtless, insincere

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Haphazard

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By chance not planed lacking in order

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Improvise

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To compose or perform without preparation

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Incite

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To rouse, stir up, urge on

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Influx

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A coming in inflow

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Pallor

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An extreme or unnatural paleness

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Pedigree

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A list of ancestors

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Precipitous

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Very steep

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Profuse

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Profuse

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Reconcile

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To restore to friendship, to settle: to resign

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Shackles

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To put into chains

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Threadbare

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Shabby old and worn