Vocabulary List #1 Flashcards by Angelika Marie Maling | Brainscape

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uxorious

A

devotion to wife

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fulminate

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to denounce

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testator

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maker of will

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termagant

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a violent woman

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conjugal

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between husband and wife

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magniloquent

A

boastful

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filial

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an emotion to a child

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monogamist

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having a single partner

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nepotism

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showing too much favor to a relative

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progeny

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descendants

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avuncular

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belonging to an uncle

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scion

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child

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maunder

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talk in a wandering manner

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parlance

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made of speech

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reiterate

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to say again

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colloquy

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a formal conversation

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declaim

A

too speak rhetorically

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fraticide

A

to kill one’s brother

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congenital

A

existing prior to death

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exhort

A

to urge strongly