Vocab Flashcards

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Incendiary

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Tending to inflame the senses, inflammatory

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Laureate

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Persons who achieves distinction in a particular field

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Eminent

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High in station, rank, or repute; prominent, distinguished

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Emphemeral

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Lasting a very short time; short :lived

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Desicated

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Dehydrated or powdered

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Defile

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Any narrow passage, especially between mountains

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Paurity

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Smallness or quantity,scarcity; scantiness

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Fissure

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A narrow opening produced by the separation of parts; crevice

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Labyrinth

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In intricate culmination of paths or passages and which it is difficult to find one’s way or to reach the exit

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Posit

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To lay down or as soon as a fact or principal

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Enigmatic

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Perplexing; mysterious

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Travails

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Pain, English you’re suffering resulting from mental or physical hardship

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Equanimity

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Mental or emotional stability of composure, especially under tension or strain; calmness, equailibrium

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Banalities

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The condition or quality of being devoid or reshnesser originality

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Eremtic

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Hermit or recluse, especially under a religious vow

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Recondite

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Dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter; beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding

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Asepticism

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The idea that a person can attain a high spiritual and moral state by practicing self denial

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Paradoxically

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Not being the normal or usual kind: self contradictions

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Hubris

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Excessive pride or self confidence; arrogance

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Epistle

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Formal, dictated writing; a poem or other literary work in the form of a letter or series of letters