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Week 12 Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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Diatribe

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Bitter criticism
Richy always goes on a long diatribe when we give him wrong information

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Inhibition

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Mental Restraint, self control
Me and VG have no inhibition after drinking a biggie alone

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Fortuitous

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Accidental, always good
The creation was Eli’s kind was fortuitous

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Incoherent

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Disjointed, unable to understand
Eli was incoherent to what we were saying cause she saw Jesus walk by

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Prestigious

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Illustrious
Eli had a prestigious 2024 because she met Jesus

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Placard

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Poster
Tim was holding placards to vote for him but he didn’t get one vote

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Integral

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Essential
It was integral for richy to add tio on Facebook

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Remuneration

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Pay
Eli gets little remuneration for working at Eli’s island deli

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Nominal

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Slight
There was a nominal chance that Eli got pregnant with Jesus baby

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Ilk

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Kind or sort, negative
Eli’s ilk is weird here on this planet

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Expunge

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Erase legally or permanently
The police will not expunge tío Edgar’s record for being with a 16 year old when he’s 32.

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Utopía

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Place of perfection
Eli’s utopia is a world with Jesus

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Flamboyant

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Showy, colorful
Richy is flamboyant and also is tio Edgar

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Anathema

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Something greatly detested or hate
Eli had anathema for Jesus because he texted Iliana

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Schism

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Spilt
Eli’s schism from Jesus broke her and made her emo

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To save a face

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To avoid disgrace

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Timorous

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Fearful
Eli was timorous when Weston asked her to hand out

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Truncated

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Cut short
Nylaya’s quince was truncated for richy and tío because they left early together

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Jaunty

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Sprightly, gay, old school happy
Eli was walking home jaunty when she left Jesus house

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Fractious

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Quarrelsome, argumentative
Richy is always fractious when someone thinks something different from him

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Ostentatious

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Showy, stand out
Eli was ostentatious when she brought her new Ugg’s to school

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