Vocab 2 Flashcards

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Seamy

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Showing many seams, seamy side of a sewn garment being less attractive

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Paradox

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A simile absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that one investigated or explained it may prove to be well-founded or true

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3
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Sentiment

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View of attitude toward a situation or event and opinion

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4
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Degradation

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The act of lowering someone or something to a less respected state

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5
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Intrusions

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Delivering move into someone else’s territory

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6
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Lull

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Calm or send to sleep, typically with soothing sounds and movements

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7
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Moderate

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Kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits, not extreme excessive

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Reciprocation

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And return in kind or of it like a value

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Recoil

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To drawback, start or shrink back I was in a warm heart or disgust

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10
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Pervade

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Especially of a smell, spread through and perceived part off

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Profuse

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Especially of something offered or discharged, exuberantly plentiful, abundant

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Agrarian

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A person who advocates a redistribution of landed property especially as a part of a social movement

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13
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Probable

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Likely to be the case for to happen

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14
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Ordeal

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A painful or horrible experience especially a protected one

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15
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Imperious

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Assuming power or authority without justification

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16
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Essence

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The instinctive or indipesable quality of something especially something abstract

17
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Finite

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Having possible limits or bounds

18
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Yearn

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Having an intense feeling of longing for something, typically something that one has lost or been separated from