Week 7 Flashcards

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Implacable I was implacable on the trail

A

Implacable inexorable cannot be pacified flexible

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Paroxysm: In a paroxysm of rage my boss ran out of the office

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A fit, sudden outburst

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Reprehensible the student had to apologize for his reprehensible behavior

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Worthy of blame

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Jurisdiction: the case was beyond the judge jurisdiction

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Power, rage of authority

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Skirmish: I had a skirmish with my cousin because he got mad at me

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Small fight

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6
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Stop harassing me chipi

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Harass to trouble torment

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7
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They government is monolithic

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Monolithic massively solid

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The indigent store owner was surprised when he left and bought nothing

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Indigent poor needy

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9
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The decision was unrelated and arbitrary

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Arbitrary based on whim dictatorial

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10
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A fray happened at school today nobody got hurt

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Fray fight

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Stymie STI ME the president was stymied by all of the criticism

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To hinder, impede

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Effigy we effigy the president by using the piñata

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A likeness (usually of a hated person

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13
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All of the flout about the game started to pile up

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Flout show contempt scoff at

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Cognizant we were cognizant we weren’t alone in the forest

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Aware

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There was a lot of turbulence in the air today

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Turbulent unruly agitated

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16
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Terminate we had to terminate the game early

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To End

17
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Forthwith we began to forthwith give out cures

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Immediately

18
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The war began to exacerbate when more soldiers started dying

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Exacerbate to irritate or make worse

19
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We began to revert to yesterday’s lesson

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Revert to return

20
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We ousted them out of my house

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To drive out eject