Vocab #2 Flashcards

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Fluctuate

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Change constantly, shift back and forth

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Knickerbocker

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New Yorker

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Sporadic

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Happening at irregular time intervals

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Divine retribution

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Punishment from higher beings for bad deeds

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Rajah

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Prince or king in India

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Elicit

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To draw or bring out or forth

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Valor

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Heroic, bravery

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Somnambulatory

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Related to sleep walking

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Denizen

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Inhabitant, resident, frequently at a certain place

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Jaunty

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Easy and sprightly in manner or bearing

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Rout

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Overwhelming defeat

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Suppress

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To do away with, abolish

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Innumerable

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Numerous, incapable of being counted

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Ecstatic

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Subject to or in a state of ecstasy

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Reproach

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To find fault with, blame

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Serf

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Slave

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Obstinate

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Inflexible, stubborn

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Exult

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To show or feel a lively or triumphant joy

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Hulking

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Heavy, clumsy, bulky

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Nebulous

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Hazy, vague, confused

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Laudable

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Praise worthy

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Insidious

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Intended to entrap or trick

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Repose

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Peace, tranquility, calm

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Debauch

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Uninhibited spree or party

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Antecedent

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A preceding circumstance, event, object, style, phenomenon

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Ingratiate

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To establish (oneself) in the favor or good graces of others by effort

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Perturb

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To throw into great disorder, derange, bother, annoy

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Dilatory

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Tending to delay or procrastinate

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Desolate

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Barren or laid waste, devistated, deserted, lonely

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Elusive

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Hard to express or define, cleverly or skillfully evasive