Vocab Lesson 9 Flashcards

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Provocative

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Tending to excite or stimulate

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Bumpkin

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An unsophisticated, awkward person

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Toady

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A person who flatters for personal gain

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Culpable

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Deserving blame or condemnation; guilty

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Hortatory

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Encouraging; inciting

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Penultimate

A

Next to last

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Orotund

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Full and rich in sound (in speech)

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Blithe

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Carefree and lighthearted

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9
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Soporific

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Tending to induce sleep

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10
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Pervasie

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Permeating; spreading throughout

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Benign

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Beneficial; faorable

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12
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Frenetic

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Wildly excited

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13
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Recrimination

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A conteraccusation

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14
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Indecorous

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Lacking good taste; improper

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15
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Corroborate

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To strengthen by adding evidence

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