Vocabulary Flashcards
1
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Vehement
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Showing strong & often angry feelings. Very emotional, forcibly expressed, deeply felt
2
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Inveigh
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To protest or complain bitterly or vehemently
3
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Imbrication
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An overlapping of edges, such in a pattern of tiles.
4
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Elide
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To suppress or alter, to strike out, leave out of consideration, omit.
5
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Muliebrity
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Femininity, womanly
6
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Tenebrism
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Extreme shadow
7
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Ciaro obscuro
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Shadows
8
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Intelligentsia
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intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite
9
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Liminal
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: of or relating to a sensory threshold
: barely perceptible
: of, relating to, or being an intermediate state, phase, or condition : in-between, transitional
