Vocab 2 Flashcards

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To make something impossible; to prevent something from happening; to prevent someone from doing something

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Precluded (verb)

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Exemption from punishment (unable to be punished) (immunity to punishment)

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Impunity (noun)

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Person who takes vengeance

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Avenger (noun)

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Something or someone that is being killed as sacrifice

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Immolation (noun)

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A discerning judge of the best in any field often for food

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Connoisseurship (noun)

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To lay on or set as something to be paid (putting a burden on someone)

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Impose upon (verb)

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To draw back; start or shrink back as in alarm, horror or disgust

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Recoiling (verb but used as adjective)

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To attempt; try

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Endeavored (verb)

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Not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty (stubborn)

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Obstinate (adjective)

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The coming of one person or thing after another in order, sequence, or in the course of events

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Succession (noun)

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An impeding, stopping, preventing (obstacle)

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Hindrances (noun)

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The correspondence of size, form, and arrangements of parts on opposite sides of something (mere image)

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Symmetry (noun)

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A sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion; dismay

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Consternation (noun)

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To crouch, as in fear or shame

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Cowered (verb)

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To cause to indicate at the same time, as one timepiece with another

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Synchronizing (verb)

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16
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Personality or temperament

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Disposition (noun)

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Calm; untroubled

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Placid (adjective)

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Fearful

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Apprehensive (adjective)

19
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Too bright

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Garish (adjective)

20
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Described in detail; narrated

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Recounted (verb)

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Gloomy

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Sullen (adjective)

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Stealthily; as if to avoid being seen or heard

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Furtively (adjective)

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Extremely important; urgent

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Imperative (adjective)

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Irritable and discontented

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Fretful (adjective)

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Skillful in a quick, sure and easy way

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Deft (adjective)