Vocabulary Eleven Flashcards
1
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quell
A
to put down or crush
2
Q
antipathy
A
a strong dislike
3
Q
haggard
A
guant, careworn
4
Q
specious
A
apparently reasonable but not so
5
Q
flotsam
A
wreckage of a ship or cargo found floating on the sea
6
Q
jetsam
A
goods deliberately cast overboard to lighten a ship in distress
7
Q
malevolent
A
evil
8
Q
salubrious
A
healthful
9
Q
blandishment
A
word or deed of mild flattery
10
Q
lesion
A
a wound or injury
11
Q
calumnious
A
defamatory, slanderous
12
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misanthropist
A
one who hates mankind
13
Q
macrocosm
A
universe, the great world
14
Q
microcosm
A
the little world
15
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sardonic
A
bitterly sarcastic, mocking, sneering
