Vocab 3rd 6 Weeks Flashcards by Madalyn Barrera | Brainscape

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Undistinguished

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Common

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Defer

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Postpone

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Exasperated

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Irritated

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Vindicated

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Cleared of accusation

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Proposition

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Suggested plan

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Vengeance

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Violence or fury

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Furtively

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Stealthily or expressive of hidden motives

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Futile

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Useless

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Mutilate

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Maimed or damaged

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Insinuatingly

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Implying

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Assimilationism

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minority dissolve into dominant culture

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Haphazardly

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Without care

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Heathenism

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uncivilized

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Forlornly

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Looking pitiful

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Coquettishly

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Flirty

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Eccentric

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Odd

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Oppressive

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Tyrannical

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Cliché

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Trite

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Plaintively

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Sorrowfully

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Rebuffs

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Bluntly refuses

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Exuberant

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Energetic

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Amiably

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Good naturedly

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Ludicrous

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Laughably ridiculous

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Ominous

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Menacing

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Plunder

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To loot

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Wrought

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Shaped

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Monologue

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Long speech made by 1 person

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Epitaph

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Inscription on a tombstone

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Disdain

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Disrespect

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Empathy

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Understand and share the feelings of another

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Spurious

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Phony

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Mundane

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Ordinary

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Antithesis

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Opposite

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Diaphanous

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Transparent

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Avante-garde

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Modern

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Pseudonym

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False or assumed name

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Piece de resistance

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Grand finale

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Conjecture

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Guess

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Volition

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Free will

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Nemesis

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Enemy

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Antebellum

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Before the war

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Auspicious

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Promising success

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Belie

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To be in contradiction with

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Bellicose

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Eager to fight

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Facetious

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Flippant; joking

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Feckless

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Without purpose

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Filibuster

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Exceptionally long speech meant to prevent legislature

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Gauche

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Lacking social grace

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Hubris

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Excessive pride or self confidence

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Kowtow

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To act in a servile manner

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Lugubrious

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Dismal; glum

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Reparation

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Repayment for damage

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Sanguine

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Cheerfully optimistic; reddish

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Subjugate

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To make submissive

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Suffragist

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An advocate for the right to vote (especially women)

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Tempestuous

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Stormy or turbulent

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Usurp

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To seize and hold without legal right

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Yeoman

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A worker; manual laborer

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Dystopia

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Bad utopia

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Chicanery

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Artful deception