Vocabulary Unit 6 Flashcards

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What means distant, received in manner uninvolved?

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Aloof

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What means ashamed or embarrassed?

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Abashed

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What means excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain?

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Anguished

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3
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What means uttered clearly indistinct syllables?

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Articulate

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What means to lie or be exposed to a pleasant warmth?

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Bask

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What means a shortcoming, fault, or imperfection?

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Defect

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What means extreme delicacy or subtlety in action?

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Finesse

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What means to parade or display oneself conspicuously?

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Flaunt

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What means going straight to the point; frank; direct; outspoken?

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Forthright

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What means pleasantly cheerful?

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Genial

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What means to infuse slowly?

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Instill

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What means to exclude?

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Ostracize

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What means feeling anxiety or anticipation?

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Premonition

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What means a fictious name?

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Pseudonym

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What means to rid of what ever is impure or undesirable?

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Purge

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What means to rejuvenate?

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Rehabilitate

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What means an effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some event or action?

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Repercussion

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What means firmly resolved or determined?

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Resolute

18
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What means tending or serving to retain something?

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Retentive

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What means a figure in which to blame?

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Scapegoat