week 7 mon Flashcards
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allege
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to assert to be true
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contiguous
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sharing a common boundary
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contiguous
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sharing a common boundary
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allege
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to assert to be true
5
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tax
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to make difficult
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schema
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an outline, model
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negligible
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of little value or importance
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lackadaisical
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showing lack of interest of spirit
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abyss
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bottomless chasm
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transfix
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to pierce
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virulent
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extremely infectious
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stalwart
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firm and resolute
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redoubtable
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fearsome
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senescent
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aging
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purloin
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to steal
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adjunct
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something attached to another
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rampant
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unrestrained
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municipal
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related to the local government
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sylvan
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characteristics of the forest
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connive
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to cooperate secretly in wrongful action
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ensconce
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to settle securely
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credulous
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tending to believe too easily
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brood
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to be deep in thought
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codify
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to organize something
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penury
lack of necessities
26
manifesto
a public declaration
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indolent
lazy
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dilettante
one who engages an art with only superficial skill
| an amateur
29
exposition
a statement intended to give background information
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disinterested
free from bias
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furtive
secretive behavior
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petulant
impatient or irritable
33
surfeit
an excess
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ascetic
self-denying
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calumny
a false and malicious statement
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orthodox
the usual beliefs
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dregs
the worst part
38
intercept
to stop something from reaching its FINAL DESTINATION
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epiphany
a sudden understanding
40
fray
a fight, brawl
41
cynical
distrusting others from a sense that everybody else is selfish
skeptical
42
edifice
a building
43
profess
to declare openly
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correlate
to correspond
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abstruse
difficult to understand
46
dissonant
harsh sounding
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hubris
excessive pride
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philanthropic
donating to charity
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disdain
a feeling of contempt
50
rankle
to cause persistent irritation
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aegis
a protection
| sponsorship
52
progeny
children, descendants
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novel
strikingly new
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plastic
capable of being shaped
| easily influenced
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scathing
very harsh
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rout
an overwhelming defeat
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malign
to talk badly of something
