VOCABULARY Flashcards

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Confute

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To prove wrong

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Miscredant

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a person with bad behavior of breaks the law

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Obtuse

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annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand

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Panacea

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solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases

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Reprieve

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to temporary free something

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Surreptitious

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Hidden

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Placid

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Calm or even tempered. The placid waters. Placid reaction.

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Ornate

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Intricately shape, complex patterns, overly decorated; unusual complex rhetoric

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Proliferate

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To rapidly increase in numbers. The cancer cells proliferated

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Wheedle

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To entice by flattery or urging

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Heresy

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Belief in contrary of orthodox religion

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Imbibe

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Drink 🍺 or absorb

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13
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Purloin

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Steal

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14
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Comestible

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Edible

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Panache

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Flair, Stylish

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Aperture

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An Opening

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Antipathy

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Intense dislike

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Bucolic

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Rustic

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Avarice

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Greediness

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Caterwaul

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Scream

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Incongruous

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Dissimilar

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Capriole

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Leap, horse leap

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Pliable

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Flexible, easily bent

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Malleable

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Pliable, able to hammer or press metal