week 5 Flashcards by elaine lopez | Brainscape

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rampant
(covid)

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going unchecked, widespread

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inane

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foolish

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ethics

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code of principles

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concur

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agree

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clandestine

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secret, undercover

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flagrant

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outrageous, glaringly bad

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admonish

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to warn, to reprove

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duress

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compulsion, force

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culprit

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the guilty person

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inexorable

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inflexible, unrelenting; doesn’t give up

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egregious

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remarkably bad

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distraught

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mentally confused, crazed; really upset

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duplicity

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cunning, trickery

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acrimonious

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bitter

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paucity

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scarcity

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to pass the buck

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to evade responsibility

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elicit

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to draw forth (info)

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pernicious

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harmful, causing injury

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tolerate

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to put up with, to bear

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construe

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to make a deduction, to infer

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impunity

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act like you have freedom from punishment

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illicit

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illegal