Vocab 3&9 Flashcards

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Ambidextrous

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Using both hands with ease skillful

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Edifice

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Building large or massive structure A large abstract structure

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Belated

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Delayed beyond usual time existing or peering past the normal or proper time

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Animate

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To give life to make alive

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Knead

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To work and press into mass with or as if with hands to manipulate or massage

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Chauvinist

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Person who thinks gender race is better than others

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Egalitarian

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Asserting promoting or marked by

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Berserk

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One who’s actions are reckless and defiance

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Ostentatious

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Find of conspicuous and sometimes pretentious display showy display

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Delude

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To mislead the mind or judgment obsolete

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Bilk

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To stop the free development to flip out of to cheat out of

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Homily

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A usually’s short sermon

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Demise

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To convey by will or leave

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Emit

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To throw or give off or out to send out

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Decadence

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Process of becoming decadent a period of decline

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Aghast

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Struck with terror amazement or horror

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Granary

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Storehouse for thresh grain

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Choleric

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Easily move to after unreasonable

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Impede

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To interfere with or slow the process of

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Qualm

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A sudden attack or illness faintness or nausea

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Lampoon

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A harsh satire directed against an individual

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Narcissistic

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loving yourself

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Eradicate

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To pull up by roots take out completely

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Fabricate

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To make up for purpose of deception to construct

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Ghastly

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Terrifyingly horrible to the senses resembling a ghost