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Week 5 Flashcards

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Rampant

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Going unchecked, widespread
Covid 19 was rampant for a few years

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Inane

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Foolish
My friends are inane is algebra class

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Ethics

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Code of principles for organizations
The school has lots of ethics

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Concur

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Agree
I don’t always concur with what people I know are doing

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Clandestine

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Secret, undercover
When i stay up at night I am clandestine

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Morals

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Personal code and laws
I have high morals at school

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Flagrant

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Outrageous , glaringly bad
Broccoli is flagrant

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Admonish

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To warn to reprove
I admonish my dog to stop barking

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Duress

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Compulsion, no physical force
When I get called on for a question I feel duress

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Culprit

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A guilty person
My sister was blaming me for eating candy but it turns out she was her own culprit

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Inexorable

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Inflexible, unrelenting, does not stop or give up
My dog is inexorable when it comes to barking for food

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Egregious

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Remarkable bad
I felt very irate yesterday and my dad told me not to make any more egregious decisions

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Distraught

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Mentally confused, crazed, really upset
I was distraught by when the teacher introduced 3 equation problems

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Duplicity

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Cunning, trickery
My sister uses duplicity on me and it works

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Acrimonious

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Bitter
Meizlyn is acrimonious when I talk about nightmares before Christmas.

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Paucity

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Scarcity short supply
I had a paucity of paper when I was making paper machete

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Furlough

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Break from work
Christian is getting his furlough break for Christmas and is coming to visit

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To pass the bucket

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To evade responsibility
I pass the bucket of my dog onto my sister at night time

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Elicit

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To draw fourth
I try to elicit answers from my dad.

20
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Elicit

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To draw fourth
I try to elicit answers from my dad.

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Pernicious

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Harmful, causing injury
This month has been very pernicious

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Tolerate

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Pit up with, to bear
I have to tolerate being alone at my dads house for two years

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Construe

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To make a deduction, to infer
I construe that my dad is the problem in his relationships

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Impunity

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Freedom of punishment
My dogs act like they are impunity

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Illicit

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Illegal
I have never done something illicit

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