Vocabulary Flashcards
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Semi circle recess and a building usually vaulted
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Apse
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Oppressively hot or moist or characterized by arousing passion (horny)
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Sultriness
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Cotton striped jacket
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Seersucker
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Officer in navy; lowest commissioned
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Ensign
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To urge
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Exhorted
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Peculiar
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Idiosyncratic
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Spies
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Emissaries
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Elation of mind or feeling
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Exaltation
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Something impressive or striking
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Spectacle
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Position requiring little or no work
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sinecure
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Small feisty quarrelsome person (Taylor)
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Bantam
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Projecting or pointing outwards; conspicuous or prominent
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Salient
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The act of killing ones brother
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fratricide
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And embarrassing mishap
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Contretemps
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Uttered with emphasis
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emphatic
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Mocking treatment of a solemn subject
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Burlesque
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To recognize
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Discern