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Vocabulary Flashcards

1
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Scullery

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Room where pans are washed and vegetables prepared for cooking

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Mane

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“Crinière”

Hair that grows on the top of a horse’s neck or around the face of a lion

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Mare

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Adult female horse

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Linseed

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Plant grown for its seeds which are used to make oil

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Knoll

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Small and round hill

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Flung (to fling)

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To throw something or someone suddenly with a lot of force

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Tiptoe

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On your toes with the heel of the foot lifted off the ground

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Heap

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Mass of things or untidy pile

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Hay

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Grass that is dried and used as animal food

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Obstinate

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Unreasonably determined to act in a particular way despite what others say

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Cryptic

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Mysterious and difficult to understand

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Tractable

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Easily dealt with, controlled

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Irrepressible

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Full of energy, impossible to stop

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Ignominious

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Embarassing because of being a complete failure

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Posthumously

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Happening after a person’s death

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Blithe

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Happy and without worry

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Pretext

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Pretented reason for doing something that is used to hide the real reason

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Eloquence

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Giving a clear, strong message

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Sordid

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Dirty and unpleasant

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Manifestly

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Very obviously

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Articulate

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Able to express thoughts and feelings easily and clearly

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Factions

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A group in a larger group, that has different ideas from the main group

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Disinter

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To dig up a dead body from the ground

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Laborious

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Needing a lot of time and efforts

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Flagstaff

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A flagpole

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Arable

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Arable farming land is used for growing crops

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Malignity

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Causing harm or evil

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Chaff

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The outer layer that is separated from grains such as wheat before they are used as food

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Mangels

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Large yellow-red-orange beet grown as food for cattle

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Infanticide

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The crime of killing a child

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Capitulated

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Accept or agree to do something unwillingly

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Stupefy

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To make someone tired and unable to think clearly

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Countenance

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The appearance or expression of someone’s face

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Impending

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Used to refer to an event unpleasant that is going to happen soon

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Beatific

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Appearing happy and calm

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Knacker

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A person whose business is the disposal of dead/unwanted animals

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Morose

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Unhappy, annoyed, unwilling to smile

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Filial

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Of a son or daugther

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Imperishable

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Lasting for ever

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Taciturn

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Tending not to speak much

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Eminent

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Famous, respected, important

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