Vocab Page 80-117 Flashcards

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defeatist

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A person who surrenders quickly or gives up hope easily,
My friend is a defeatist

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console

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To give comfort, to alleviate their grief.
I went to console her

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nuptial

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of or related to a marriage; wedding
a nuptial chamber was built, I plan nuptials

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carnal

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of or related to crude bodily appetites, corporeal or sexual, needs
I have a carnal desire

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resignation

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an attitude of acceptance towards hardship or calamity,
I shrug in resignation

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initiation

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the process admitting someone into a selecitve and often secret group through a formal ritual or ceremony.
to join our group you must do the initation

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flagellate

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to punish by wipping

People will flagellate themselves and others

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secular

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Not affiliated with any particular religion;
my old school was secular

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bearable

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Endurable, sufferable, livable,
THE PAIN IS BARABLE

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ideology

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supporting/following a polictal, economic, or religious worldview.
I have a liberal ideology

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belligerent

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Hostile and combative
People were belligerent

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