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Week 11 Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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Inundate

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To flood
Eli’s stairs outside her house was inundated in water that she slipped and landed on cosmo

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Fruitless

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Useless
The work with Guzman is fruitless

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Poignant

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Moving, painful to the feelings
The speeches we read in blehms were poignant

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Garbled

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Eli was so distracted looking at Jesus that all her words were garbled

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Sanguine

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Optimistic
Richy was sanguine about finding his lost air pod in lunch

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To feather ones nest

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Grow rich by taking advantage of circumstances inappropriately or illegally

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Phlegmatic

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Calm, hard to rouse to action
Richy is not phlegmatic at work

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Corroborate

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Confirm, support
We all corroborate Eli’s decisions with Jesus

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Comprehensive

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Thorough
The directions to the test was comprehensive

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Over zealous

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Enthusiastic
Eli was over zealous when she saw Jesus

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Coerce

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To force
We coerced Eli into making a move on Jesus

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Elapse

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To slip by, time passing by
Richy saw the time elapse while waiting for tío Edgar to accept his friend request

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Meticulous

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Careful, attention to detail
Eli was meticulous when she saw Jesus with Iliana

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Domicile

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Home
Eli’s domicile looks like a real castle

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Lax

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Careless, negligent
Vg is lax about a little abyss being with a little bottle

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Sporadic

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Occasional
Eli’s feeling for Jesus or sporadic

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Rash

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To hasty, reckless
Richy made a rash decision when he sent a friend request to tio

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Conjecture

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Guess, with reason
Vg made a conjecture that abyss was still with a little bottle

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Óbviate

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Do away with, eliminate because it’s no longer needed
Eli obviated Jesus out of her life because he saw her with Iliana

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Lurid

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Causing a sensation, shocking
The lurid news about tíos wedding shocked us all

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Quip

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Joke
Richy always a quips

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Windfall

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Unexpected substantial financial gain

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