Vocab 14 Flashcards

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Debacle

The buckle

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A disaster

Noun

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Beget

Forget

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To create

Verb

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Connoisseur

King of sewer

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An expert in food and art

Noun

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Artisan

Art in sand

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A worker skilled in a craft

Noun

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Exhume

Tomb

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To dig up from a grave

Verb

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Enraptured

Captured

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Delighted, excited

Adjective

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Dromedary

Roaming dairy

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A one humped camel

Noun

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Dissolution

Solution

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The breaking up into parts; end of a contract

Noun

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Fester

Uncle fester

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To generate pus

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Insouciant

South sea ant

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Calm and carefree

Adjective

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Harangue

Meringue

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A lecture where you talk down to somebody

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Marshal

Marshal (noun)

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To gather a group

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Asunder

Thunder

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Apart

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Atrophy

Trophy

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To whither away

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Chattel

Cattle

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Property or slave

Noun

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Coterie

Coat for three

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Groupies

Noun