Vocabulary Chapter 3 Flashcards by Carmen Trojcak | Brainscape

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Fecund

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Fertile; productive

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Adventitious

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Accidental; non essential

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Bona fide

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In good faith

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Deviate

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To turn aside from a course to stray

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Extenuate

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To lesson the seriousness by providing partial excuses

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Impale

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To pierce with a sharp stake through the body

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Obfuscate

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To confuse or to bewilder

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Pedestrian

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Ordinary or dull

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Parochial

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Local, narrow, limited

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Edify

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To improve someone morally

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Ambiguous

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Open to more than one interpretation

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Cataclysm

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A violent change

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Optimum

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Best; most favorable; ideal

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Importune

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To ask persistently; to beg

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Glower

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To stare angrily

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