Vocab Unit 9 🌭 Flashcards

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Apt

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Appropriate

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Bludgeon

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A short heavy club

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Endow

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To furnish

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Mien

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Appearance or look

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Impunity

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Freedom form punishment, loss or harm

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Penal

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Of or relating to or prescribing punishment , as for breaking the law

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Pertinent

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Relating to the matter at hand

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Capitulate

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To surrender or give up

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Fend

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To make an effort to resist

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Cynical

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Believing that people act only out of selfish moves

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Poignant

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Deeply moving

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Acrid

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Sharp

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Terse

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Concise

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Respite

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A break

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Prodigy

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A exceptionally talented child

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Awry

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Twisted or turned to one side

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Disarming

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Tending to remove suspicion or hostility

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Dire

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Causing or involving great fear or suffering

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Obscure

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Difficult to understand

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Boorish

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ill-mannered

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Lance

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Spear,Spike

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Heresy

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Against orthodox opinions

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Chafe

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Soreness or irritation caused by rubbing

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Encroach

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To trespass

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Disgruntled

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Grumpy and dissatisfied

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Defile

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A narrow passage between mountains

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Predominant

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Superior in power

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Recluse

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A person who lives in seclusion or apart form a society

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Renown

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Widespread fame or glory

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Epistle

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A letter (as in a document)