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Vocab English Homework Flashcards

1
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Asset

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A useful or valuable thing, person, or quality.

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Quivering

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Tremble or shake with a slight, rapid motion.

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Unfathomable

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Incapable of being fully understood.

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Gingerly

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In a careful or cautious manner.

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Incredulous

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Unable or unwilling to believe something.

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Scowled

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An angry, untampered expression.

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Nonchalantly

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Feeling and appearing casually calm and relaxed.

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Milling

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To move about in a disorganized way.

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Hermits

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Any person living alone or seeking to do so.

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Premonition

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A strong feeling that something is going to happen.

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Winced

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An involuntary grimace/shrinking movement of the body out of or in anticipation of pain or distress.

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Unceasingly

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Not coming to an end.

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Clad

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Clothed.

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Gallantly

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Brave, heroic, being respectful to woman.

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Aloofness

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Not friendly or forth coming.

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Ornery

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Bad tempared.

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Imploringly

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To beg someone to do something.

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Sullenly

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Bad tempered and sulky.

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eluded

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Failed to be grasp or remembered.

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Vital

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Absolutely necessary or important.

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Indignant

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Feeling or showing annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment.

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jolt

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To give a shock to someone in order to act or changed.

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doggedly

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having or showing persistence.

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Bleak

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Cold and forbidden.

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drawled

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Speaking in a slow lazy way.

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Brawn

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Physical strength in constant of intelligence.

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Aghast

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Filled with horror or shocked.

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exploits

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an act/deed

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Contemptuously

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The feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving of hate.

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divert

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distract from something

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reluctantly

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hesitant or unwilling

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