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Vocabulary 3 Flashcards

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Sanguine

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Red; cheerfully optimistic

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Junction a position

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To compare

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Fortuitous

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Fortunate; lucky

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Wanton

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Unprovoked; uncalled for; unnecessary

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Sagacity

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Wisdom; wise

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Truculent

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Fierce

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Prig

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Prude

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Perpetuity

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Forever time period without end. Can be a legal thing

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Inebriated

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Drunk

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Libertine

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Without any moral compass; libertine to a prig

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Aspersion

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Bad; slander, bad remark

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Munificent

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Generous

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Collusion

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Secret agreement by a party; small group group planned illegally

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colloquial

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unconventional style; regular/normal style rather than formal

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Corpulent

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Fat

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Conflagration

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A Massive fire

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Epigram

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a short and clever poem or saying

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Miscreant

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Delinquent; someone who behaves poorly

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Inimitable

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Unable to be copied; someone who is original

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Imperious

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Over bearing; dominant (in an annoying way)

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Catharsis

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Cleansing; purge

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Imbibe

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To take in (usually with alcohol); part take

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Malaise

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A funk

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Façade

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A front or mask; false front

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Amorphous

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Without shape

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Jocular

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Happy; joyful; joking

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Vituperative

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Rude; belligerent; harshly critical

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Anathema

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A cursed person; cousin of a pariah; disliked, stayed away from

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Cavalcade

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Procession or parade

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Deferential

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Willing to submit; give into

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Genteel

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Refined; polite; good manners

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Discord

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Chaos conflict

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Behoove

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Benefit

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Abridged

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Shortened

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Coalition

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A group of cooperating forces

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Axiom

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A belief; a saying

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Stoic

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Unemotional; doesn’t affect whether happy or not. Does not change attitude

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Indecipherable

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Difficult to understand

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Penchant

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A “knack” or desire for something. A “knack” for ribs. “Strong liking for something or a strong tendency to behave in a certain way”

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Antonomy

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Self-reliant

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Opaque

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Unintelligible (relating to text in this matter/def)

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Obtuse

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Difficult to understand; blunt; not sharp. Relation to humans

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Hedonist

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Motivated by pleasure; headness???

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Provisional

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Temporary

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Windfall

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Bonus; stumble upon something unexpected

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Epithet

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Engraving on tombstone

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Epigram?

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?

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Epigraph

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?

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Assuage

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to relieve

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Dictum

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Bossy

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Taciturn

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quiet

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malevolent

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evil

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Nebulous

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Cloudy; unclear; no recollection, can’t remember

54
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Mortification

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horrified; state of uncomfortable or emberressed

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Iniquities

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sins; evil doings, flaws

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fractious

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irritiable

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Libel

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written besmirchment

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Slander

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verbal, spoken besmirchment

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Besmirch

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speaking ill of someone

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Diversion

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Distraaction; hobby?

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Invective

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“naughty words,” inappropriate language, hardcore insults. Bob Ewell? Mrs. Dubose?

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Unobtrusive

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not intruding; not getting int he way

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Litigants

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People involved in a courtcase

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Litigate

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to sue

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