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Week 11 Flashcards

1
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Inundate

A

To flood

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Fruitless

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Eli was fruitless when it came to folding clothes
Useless

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Poignant

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When I saw Eli find love it was poignant
Moving, painful to the feelings

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4
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Garbled

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Confused, mixed

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Sanguine

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Optimistic

The cancer spread and the doctors think he’s going to die

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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
Cheli was phlegmatic for the first time in a year

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Corroborate

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Confirm, support
Eli refuses to corroborate at the meeting

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Comprehensive

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Thorough
Eli was very comprehensive when there was a list about her

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Zealous

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Enthusiastic
Eli was over enthusiastic for her blessing

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Coerce

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To force, to force phycology
Richy coerced himself on to Blehm

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Elapse

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Pass by
A guy kept elapsing by me and my mom

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Meticulous

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Carful, attention to detail
Cheli was being meticulous when we went to the escape room

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Domicile

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Home
My cousins always felt like domicile

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Lax

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Careless, negligent
Eli was being lax when we went to a kids birthday party

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16
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Sporadic

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Occasional

17
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Rash

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To hasty, reckless
During the soccer game Itzys rashed to the ball

18
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Conjecture

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Guess, a reason or evidence
During the football game Andy made a conjecture during the coin toss

19
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Obviate

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Do away with, eliminate, no longer need
I obviated my paper because I had a Chromebook to write a paragraph

20
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Lurid

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Sensational, causing a sensation, shocking
When my mom told me she was going to ovulate I looked at her very lurid

21
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Quip

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Joke
Eli was a quip to her parents

22
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Windfall

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Unexpected substancial gain

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