Vocab Lesson 3 Flashcards by Bailey Shields | Brainscape

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Bombast

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Impressive but meaningless language

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Bona fide

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In good faith

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Boor

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a rude or impolite person

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Bovine

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Pertaining to cows or cattle

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Bowdlerize

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To remove offensive passages from a play, novel, etc.

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Brevity

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Briefness; Short duration

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Bucolic

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Pertaining to countryside; rural, rustic

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Cajole

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to coax, to persuade, to wheedle

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Callow

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Young; Inexperienced

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carcinogen

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causing cancer

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Carnal

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sensual, sexual

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carrion

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decaying flesh

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cataclysm

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a violent change

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cataract

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large waterfall; abnormality of the eye

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caveat

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a warning

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