Wk 7 Flashcards

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Phlegmatic

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Apathetic, sluggish, not easily excited or made emotional

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Prostrate

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Lying face down, as a sign of humility or worship, physically or emotional exhaustion

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Palpitate

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To beat rapidly, to tremble

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Propitious

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Favorable, giving good signs for the future, likely to workout; kind or forgiving

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Mitigate

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To make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity

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Diurnal

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Happening every day; happening in the day time (rather than at night)

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Ignominious

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Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame

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Didactic

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Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

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Capacious

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Spacious

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Allay

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To calm or pacify, set to rest, to lessen or relieve

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