Week 3 Vocab Flashcards by Katie G | Brainscape

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Sordid

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Dirty or filthy

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Zenith

A

Highest point

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Plausibility

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Believable

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Peons

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Someone w/ a bad job

Unskilled laborer

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Irascible

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Easily provoked to anger; very irritable

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Impetuous

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Impulsive to rash

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Forestalled

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To prevent; to plan ahead

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Forlorn

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Unhappy b/c you’re lonely; abandoned

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Thrall

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Slave

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Sultry

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Hot or humid

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Vernal

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Pertaining to spring

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Contrition

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Sincere remorse; guilty

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Fettered

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Chain or shackle (physically)

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Edifice

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A large building

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Disconsolate

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Hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable; not able to be comforted

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Covert

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Secret or hidden

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Bowels

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Intestine

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Adept

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Very skilled; proficient

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Adroit

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Clever

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Contagious

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Spreading disease