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Vocabulary (Not made by Ariz) Flashcards

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Apathetic

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Showing no feeling or concern

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Ardent

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Enthusiastic

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Fervid

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Enthusiastic

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Intolerant

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Narrow-minded

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Dogmatic

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Opinionated

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Liberal

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Open-minded

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Phlegmatic

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Unemotional

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Passionate

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Showing feeling

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Eager

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Showing excitement towards something

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Decrease

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Go down

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Augmentation

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Making something greater in size

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Amplify

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To make something louder

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Fervor

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Passionate feeling

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Indifference

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Lack of interest

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Precedent

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An earlier event or action

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Brandishing

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Wave or flourish

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Enunciator

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Speak clearly

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Ponderously

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To think

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Eloquence

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Persuasive writing

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Titantic

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Size or power

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Deference

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Humble

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Sine Die

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Without assigned for further meeting

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Sotto Voce

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Quiet voice

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Stridently

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Having a harsh sound

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Paradoxically

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A statement that seems self-contradictory

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Insinuate

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To suggest slyly

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Rotogravures

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Printing process

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Lamentations

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Showing grief

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Impassioned

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Filled with or showing great emotion

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Biased

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Unfairly prejudiced, for or against

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Fervent

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Having or displaying a passionate intensity

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Crescendo

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With a gradual increase in sound

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Zeal

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Enthusiastic

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Arbitrary

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Random choice or personal whim, rather than any system or reason

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Condescendingly

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Having or showing a feeling of patronizing superiority

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Fatuity

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Something foolish

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Zoology

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The scientific study of the behavior, structure, physiology, classification and distribution of animals.

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Infringement

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The action of breaking the terms of a law, agreement, etc

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Archaeology

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The study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains

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Anthropologist

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People that practice the study of humanity

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Incontrovertible

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Not able to be denied or disputed

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Unorthodox

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Contrary to what is usual

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Benign

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Kindly

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Pagan

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A person holding religious beliefs, other than those of main world religions

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Hypothesis

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A proposed explanation or guess

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Perdition

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(Christian theology) A state of eternal punishment, which a sinful person passes after death

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Doggedly

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Persistant

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Sancity

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State of being holy

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Fable

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Short story, typically using personification, conveying a lesson

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Unassailable

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Unable to be attacked

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Geology

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Science that deals with earth’s physical structures and substances

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Audacity

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Willingness to

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Bailiff

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A person who looks after prisoners

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Frond

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Leaf like part of the hand

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Patriarch

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Male head of the family

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Vested

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Assigned to

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Agnostic

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A person who believes nothing is known

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Extradite

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Sending a criminal to the country where the committed the crime

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Unctuosly

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Flattering

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Indeterminate

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Uncertain

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Precepts

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Rules

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Heretic

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A person that believes

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Haylards

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A rope used to hoist

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Evolutionists

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A person who believes in the theory of evolution

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Contemptuously

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Scornful

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Dogma

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Set of principles

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Cynical

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Believing that people are motivated by self-interest

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Caricatured

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Make comical representation

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Infidel

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People who don’t believe certain things of their religion

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Suffrage

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The right to vote

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Connotations

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A second meaning to a word

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Incredulity

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Lack of belief

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