Vocab 2 Flashcards by erica Pinkham | Brainscape

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Corpulent

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Large or bulky

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Glib

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Readily fluent, often thoughtlessly

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Pelisse

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An outer garment lined or trimmed with fur

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Portentous

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Ominously significant or indicative

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Voluble

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Ready and continuous flow of words, glib

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Debauchery

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Excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures

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Languid

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Lacking vigor and vitality

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Abject

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Utterly hopeless, miserable

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Avid

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Enthusiastic, ardent

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Potation

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A drink, especially alcoholic

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Florid

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Flowery, excessively ornate

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Tenement

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Apartment house

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Irresolute

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Not resolute

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Sultry

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Oppressively hot and close or moist

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Loath

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Unwilling, reluctant

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Dray

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Low, strong cart without fixed sides

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Audacity

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Boldness or daring

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Rusk

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Dry and or stale bread

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Recalcitrant

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Stubbornly defiant or difficult to manage

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Torpor

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Sluggish inactivity or inertia

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Fatuity

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Complacent stupidity

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Feral

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Wild animals

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Caustic

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Capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue

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Fortuitous

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Happening or produced by chance

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Quintessence

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The pure and concentrated essence of a substance

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Samovar

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A metal urn, used by Russians

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Dalakian

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An absence of intelligence or virtue

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Anemic

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Lacking power, vigor, vitality, or colorfulness

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Phantasmagoria

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A shifting series of phantasms, illusions, or deceptive appearances

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Boor

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A churlish, rude, or unmannerly person