Vocab Flashcards

Unknown words from the novel.

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Cirque

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Amphitheatre shaped valley formed by glacial erosion

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Contemptously

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In a scornful way which shows distain

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Dubiety

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A state of uncertainty

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Ebullience

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Being cheerful or energetic

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Errant

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Straying from the acceptable course

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Enveloped

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Surround

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Officious

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Asserting authority

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Coign

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Projecting angle of a wall

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Tumult

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A loud confused noise often from a crowd

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Festooned

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Adorning with decorations

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Tirade

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A long angry speech of criticism/accusation

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12
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Indignantly

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A manor indicating annoyance at something perceived as unfair

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13
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Unheeded

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heard or noticed but disregarded

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14
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Gaudy

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Extravagantly bright or showy

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Fertive

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Attempting to avoid detection/attention

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Avidly

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With great interest or enthusiasm

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17
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Inscrutable

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Impossible to understand or interprit

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Accustomed

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Usual

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Vicissitudes

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A change in circumstance or fortune, typically a bad one

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20
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Antagonism

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Active hostility or opposition

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21
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Declivities

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A downward slope

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Rapt

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Completely fascinated or absorbed

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23
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Tacit

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Implied without statement

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Flaunted

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Display something with an intent to impress

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Perceptible

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A slight change able to be seen and noticed

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26
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Susurration

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Whispering or rattling

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27
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Whelming

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Engulf, submerge or bury

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28
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Opales

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Hydrated silica in a quartz like form

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29
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Cence

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30
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Corporate

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A large company or group

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31
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Chastisement

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Punish, sometimes by beating

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32
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Comprehension

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The ability to understand things

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33
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Sinewy

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Lean and muscular

34
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Incredulously

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In a manor indicating disbelief

35
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Tacit(ly)

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Implied without being directly stated

36
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Outsider

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A person who does not belong

37
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Bloodied

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Stained in blood

38
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Malevolently

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Having or showing a wish to do evil to others

39
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Jeeringly

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Rude or mocking remark, usually in a loud voice

40
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Perpetually

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Never changing/ending

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Assent

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The expression of approval or agreement

42
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Effigy

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A sculpture or model of a person

43
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Condemnation

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Very strong dissaproval

44
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Lamentation

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Passionate expression of grief or sorrowing

45
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Decorum

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Good behaviour

46
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Indigo

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A dark blue dye

47
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Infinite

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Limitless or endless amounts

48
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Perilous

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Full of danger risk

49
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Mimicry

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Immitation

50
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Scar

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The mark left (from the plane)

51
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Creepers

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A plant growing from the ground

52
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Garter

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Elastic worn around the leg to hold up socks

53
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Fledged

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Just grown

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Prominent

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Projecting from something

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Proclaimed

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Publicly announced

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Specious

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Superficially plausible, but wrong (misleading)

57
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Hastened

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Quick to do something

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Efflorescence

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A white powdery deposit in dry regions such as the surface of rocks

59
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Vainly

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In a way producing no result

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Effulgence

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Brightness to the extreme

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Enmity

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A state or feeling of active hostility

62
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ill-omened

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Bad intentions

63
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Decorous

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Polite and restrained

64
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Strident (blare)

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A loud harsh grating sound

65
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(strident) Blare

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A loud harsh sound

66
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Bouts

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A short period of intensive activity

67
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Gorging

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Filling with food

68
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Speculated

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A theory or conjecture without strong evidence to back up

69
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Incredulous

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Unwilling or unable to believe something

70
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Duplication

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The action of duplicating or doubling something

71
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Vital

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Essentail

72
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Furtive

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Attempting to avoid attention

73
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Suffusion

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Slowly spreading through something else

74
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Pallor

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An unhealthy pale appearance

75
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Indignation

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Anger provoked by unfair treatment

76
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Pliant

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Easily bent/swayed

77
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Immured

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Enclose or confine, against will

78
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Communion

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Shared participation

79
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Twining

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Interlace

80
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Contemptously

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In a scornful way showing distain