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Vocab 3 Flashcards

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Retrospect

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Contemplation of the past, a survey of past time/event

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Putrid

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In a state of foul decay/decomposition; rotten

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3
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Obscure

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Not clear in understanding; not expressing meaning clearly

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4
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Edifice

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A building, especially a large or imposing one

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Lucrative

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Profitable, moneymaking

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Forlorn

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Dreary, unhappy, sad, and lonely

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Macabre

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Gruesome and horrifying; dealing with or representing death, especially in its grimmer aspects

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Lacerate

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To tear roughly, mangle, distress mentally or emotionally, to wound

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Pretentious

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Characterized by an assumption of dignity/importance, especially when exaggerated/undeserved

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Chalet

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A kind of farmhouse, low with wide eves

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Patina

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A film/covering spreading gradually on another substance, a calcification

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Uremic

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Afflicted with uremia

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Incessant

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Ceaseless, unending

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Inadvertence

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The act it effect of inattention, an oversight

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Pathological

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Caused by or involving disease, caused by a mentally disturbed condition

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Aberrant

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Deviating from the right/usual/normal course

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Insensate

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Without human feeling or sensitivity, cold; without sense of understanding

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Enigmatic

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Perplexing, mysterious

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Etiology

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Any study of causes/causation or casualty as in philosophy, biology, or physics

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Inimical

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Adverse in tendency or effect, unfavorable, harmful, hostile

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Libido

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All the instinctual energies derived from the id, sexual drive

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Dogmatic

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Asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner, opinionated

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Conflagration

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A destructive fire, usually an extensive one

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Fetid

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Having an offensive odor, stinking

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Parricide

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The killing of a mother, father, or close relative

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Similitude

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Likeness or resemblance

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Prodigious

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Extraordinary in size, amount, extent; wonderful

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Noisome

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Offensive, harmful to health

29
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Offal

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The parts of a butchered animal that are considered inedible; rubbish or garbage

30
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Pestilential

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Pernicious; harmful; annoyingly troublesome

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Upbraid

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To find fault with or reproach severely

32
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Expend

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To use up, to pay out

33
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Carnage

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The ski after of a great number of people as in battle

34
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Anguish

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Excruciating or acute pain, distress, or suffering

35
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Depravity

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the state or an instance of moral corruption

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