Week 5 Flashcards

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Rampant

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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 principle

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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 warm, 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, never stops

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Egregious

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Remarkably bad

I made an egregious mistake when I came home late

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Distraught

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Mentally confused, upset, crazed

The teacher was distraught when we all
started talking

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Duplicity

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Cunning, trickery and dupe

duplicity is the reason why cheli got scammed

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Acrimonious

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Bitter

Cheli was being acrimonious when I stole her candy

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Paucity

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Scarcity

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Elicit

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To draw forth

17
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Pernicious

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Harmful, causing injury

Eli was being pernicious towards my sister

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Tolerate

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To put up with, to bear

Eli keeps tolerating Kendrah

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Construe

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To make a deduction, to infer

20
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Impunity

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Freedom from punishment, act like free from punishment