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Vocab: T Flashcards

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Talisman

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Charm to bring good luck and avert misfortune

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Tacit

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Silently understood; implied

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Tangential

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Peripheral; digressing

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Tautology

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Unnecessary repetition

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Taxonomy

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Science of classification; in biology, the process of classifying organisms in categories

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Tenet

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Belief; doctrine

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Tenuous

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Weak; insubstantial

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Terrestrial

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Earthly, commonplace

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Theocracy

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Government by priests representing a god

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Thespian

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An actor or actress

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Timbre

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The characteristic quality of sound produced by a particular instrument or voice; tone color

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Tirade

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Long, violent speech; verbal assault

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Toady

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Flatterer; hanger-on; yes-man

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Tome

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Book, usually large and academic

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Torpor

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Lethargy; dormancy; sluggishness

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Torque

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A turning or twisting force; the moment of a force; the measure of a force’s tendency to produce twisting or turning and rotation around an axis

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Tortuous

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Having many twists and turns; highly complex

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Tout

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To promote or praise energetically

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Tractable

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Obedient; yielding

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Transgression

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Act of trespassing or violating a law or rule

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Transient

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Temporary; short lived; fleeting

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Translucent

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Partially transparent

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Travail

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Work, especially arduous work; tribulation; anguish

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Travesty

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Parody; exaggerated limitation; caricature

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Treatise

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Article treating a subject systemically and throughly

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Tremulous

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Trembling; quivering; frugal; timid

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Trepidation

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Fear and anxiety

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Truculence

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Aggressiveness; ferocity

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Tryst

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Agreement between lovers to meet; rendezvous

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Tumid

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Swollen; distended

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Turbid

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Muddy; opaque; in a state of great confusion

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Turgid

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Swollen; bloated; pompous

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Tutelary

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Serving as a guardian or protector

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