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Vocab. 3 Flashcards

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Capricious (adj)

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Compulsive, unpredictable

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Avocation (n)

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Hobby, minor occupation

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Disparity (n)

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Difference

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Efficacy (n)

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Effectiveness

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Epistle (n)

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Letter (formal)

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Hospice (n)

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1: Lodging for travelers (students, poor, etc.)
2: home care for the dying

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Impetus (n)

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Driving force, impulse, incentive

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Moribund (adj)

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1: person at point of death
2: thing lacking vitality
3: state of decline

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Reticent (adj)

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Inclined to be silent or secretive

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Vacillate (v)

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Hesitate, waver, indecisive

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