Vocabulary Words Humanities 1/4-1/11 Flashcards

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1.Accustom/2.ed

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1.
to make familiar
2.usual
2.1 used to

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1) alert

2) alerted

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1) watchful;wide-awake
1. 1)a warning signal
2) to warn to be ready

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1) assign
2) assigned
3) assigns
4) assignment

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1) to give a responsibility or a piece of work
2) to select for a position or for what has to be done.
3) to give out, as a piece of work to be done
4) whatever is given out as work to be done

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1)budge

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1) to move or shift

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1)burly

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1)big and strongly built

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1)companion

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1)one who spends time with or does things with one another

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1)compatible

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1)getting along well together.

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1)concept

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1) a general idea or thought about something.

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1) distract
2) distracted
3) distraction/s

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1) to pull one away from what they are doing.
2) to draw ones thoughts or attention away from what they are doing.
3) something that draws ones thoughts or attention away.

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1) jostle

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1) to push or shove.

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1) obedient

2) obedience

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1) doing what one is asked or told.

2) the state or condition of doing what one is told.

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1) obstacle

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1) something that prevents one from moving forward.

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adj 1) patient
1.1) patience

n 2) patient

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adj 1) willing to wait without complaining.
1.1) a willingness to wait for someone or without complaining.

n 2) a person in a doctors care

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1) pedestrian

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1) a person who is walking; someone traveling on foot.

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v 1) retire
v 2) retire
n 1) retirement

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v 1) to stop working because one has reached a certain age
n 1) the state of no longer working

v 2) to go to bed

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