Vocabulary Flashcards

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The feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless

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Contempt

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Succeeding or future generations collectively

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Posterity

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To follow close upon, go with, attend

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Pursued

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3
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A shot usually from a hidden place

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Snipe

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4
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state or process of living in a particular place

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Habitation

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5
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causing great horror or fear; frightful or macabre

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Ghastly

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To hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent

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Faltering

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7
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A physical weakness or ailment

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Infirmities

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8
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state of being deluded.

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Delusion

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9
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an illness typically a minor one

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Ailment

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10
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Quality of being pleasantly stimulating or exciting

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Piquancy

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Posture in which the body is supported on one leg, with the other leg extended horizontally backward

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Arabesque

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12
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Archaic clothing

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Habiliments

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13
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Intricate; twisted

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Convoluted

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14
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Secretly stealthily

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Furtively

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15
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Taking great pleasure

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Reveling

16
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Spoken ill of

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Maligned

17
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In such a slight way as to be almost unnoticeable

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Impercepitbly

18
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Common place; ordinary

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Prosaic