Vocabulary Week 5 Flashcards

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Insipid

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Uninteresting: unchallenging

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Indolent

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Lazy

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Listless

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Lacking energy

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Torpor

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Laziness; inactivity; Dullness

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Alienated

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Removed or disassociated from friends, family, or homeland

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Alliance

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A union of two or more groups

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Disparity

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Inequality in age, rank, or degree; difference

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Servile

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Submissive; like a servant

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Suppressed

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Subdued; kept from being circulated

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Embellish

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To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate

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Climax

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Arrangement of words in order of increasing importance

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Commoratio

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Repetition of an idea, re-worded

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Conduplicatio

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Repetition of a key word

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds, most commonly within a short passage of verse

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Dubitatio

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Expressing doubt and uncertainty about oneself

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Ellipsis

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Omission of words