Week 5 Flashcards

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Rampant

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Going unchecked, widespread

COVID 19 was rampant

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Inane

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Foolish

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Ethics

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Code of principles

Cheating is against school ethics

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Moral

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Personal beliefs

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Concur

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Agree

My mom concurred to buy me a ps5 for getting all a’s

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Clandestine

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Secret, undercover

I had to be clandestine when I had an all nighter

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Flagrant

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Outrageous, glaringly bad

I flagrantly broke the rules and won

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Admonish

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To warn, to reprove

I was admonished for giving my dog a food he can’t eat

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Duress

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Compulsion, force

I was under duress when said yes to go

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Culprit

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The guilty person

The culprit escaped the scene of the crime

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Inexorable

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Inflexible, unrelenting

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Egregious

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Remarkably bad

I made an egregious mistake when I decided to continue even though I was tired

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Distraught

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Cunning, trickery

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Illicit

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Illegal

The boys during Halloween were doing illicit activities

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Elicit

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To draw forth

I tried to elicit the teachers attention by raising my hand

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Pernicious

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Harmful, causing injury

Playing football can be pernicious

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Tolerate

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To put with, to bear

I tolerate the loudness of my class

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Construe

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To make a deduction, to infer

I construed the chiefs were still undefeated

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Misconstrue

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To make a deduction, to infer incorrectly

I misconstrued the main character’s will to fight

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Impunity

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Acts like freedom from punishment

Donald Trump thought he had impunity when he was president