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Vocab Flashcards

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Prevaricate

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To lie or deviate from the truth

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Garret

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An attic, usually a small wretched one

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Hypochondria

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A preoccupation with fears of having a serious disease

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Abject

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God-awful or terrible

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Resolutely

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Decisively, firmly

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Languid

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Indifferent

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Bilious

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Peevish, irritable

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Monomaniac

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Obsessing over one thing

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Melodramatic

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Overly dramatic

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Self-abnegation

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Being self critical , self harming

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Fortitude

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Strength

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Superfluous

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Excessive

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Prepossessing

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Good first impression , favorable on the outside

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Unalloyed

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Pure, complete

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Foppish

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Characteristics of one who is unduly devoted to dress and niceties of manners

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Base

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Low and crude

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Treacle

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Jam/ jelly thing or an expression that is excessively sweet and sentimental

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Capriciously

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Impulsively or changing on a whim

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Solicitude

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Feeling of excessive concern

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Incredulous

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Disbelieving or skeptical

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Corpulence

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Fat or state of being fat

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Countenance

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Facial expression

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Peculiarly

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Having to do with money

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Insolence

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Insulting or contemptuous behavior , disrespectful

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Haughty

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Supercilious and arrogant

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Servile

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Slave type behavior or craven subordination

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Pernicious

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Destructive or deadly

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Expiating or expiate

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Making amends, atoning

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Lachrymose

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Causing tears , showing sorrow, tearful

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Nihilist/ nihilism

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One who rejects all religious, morals, and traditional values, practices and institutions

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Misanthrope

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People hater

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Vacillating

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Irresolute , moving back and forth, can’t make up your mind

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Duality

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Having a schism in your personality , two sides likes Raskolnikov

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Philanderer

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Faithless lover or a flirt

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Lecherous

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Having or showing excessive or offensive sexual desire

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Supercilious

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Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy

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Treacherous

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Dangerously unstable and unpredictable

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Heretics

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Those who told beliefs oppose to the established teachings of a church

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Acaricious

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Greedy

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Putrefy

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To rot and or decay giving off a foul stench

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Presentiment

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Forethought or a foreboding feeling

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