Week 7 Flashcards

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Implacable

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Cannot be pacified, Inexorable
The search for my missing homework was Implacable

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Paroxysm

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A fit, sudden outburst
My baby sister had a paroxysm because I took away her toy so she can eat her food

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Reprehensible

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Worthy of blame, really bad, terrible
what jeffery dahmer did to his victims was reprehensible

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Jurisdiction

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Power, range of authority
My teacher doesn’t have the jurisdiction to search my backpack

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Skirmish

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small fight, brief encounter
The opposing team hit our quarterback late and resulted to a skirmish

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Terminate

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To end
One of my favorite movies is terminator and it’s about robots that trying to terminate human existence

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Forthwith

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Immediately
My teacher noticed I was on my phone and He told me to forthwith back to work

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Exacerbate

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to irritate, make worse
I exacerbated my consequence by telling my mom that it was stupid for grounding me

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Revert

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return
After changing to a new formation during the game we reverted back to our old one because it wasn’t working out

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Oust

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To drive out, eject
The security rushed to the scene too Oust the crazy man

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Harras

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trouble, torment

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Monolithic

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Massively solid

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Indigent

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Poor, needy

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Arbitrary

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based on a whim, dictorial

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Ameliorate

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To make better

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