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Word List 7 Flashcards

1
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Vacillate

A

To waver

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Vale

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Earthly life, world

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Vat

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A large vessel

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Venality

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openess to corruption, bribery

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Vicariously

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By substitute, through the experience of another

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Visceral

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Pertaining to the viscera,Instinctive, profound

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Vitiate

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Weaken, make ineffective

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Vivacious

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Lively, spirited, outgoing

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Volatile

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Explosive, unstable

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10
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Wabi

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The beauty of simplicity

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Wantoly

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Unjustifiably, recklessly

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Winsome

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Charming, attractive, engagement

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13
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Zwischenraum

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Literally the space between 2 objects

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Pushkin

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A strainer hung on a barrel tap to catch and strain cider, of vinegar

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Quisquillous

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Made of rubbish

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Rammish

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Strongly scented

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Roorback

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False report circulated to damage the reputation of a political candidate

18
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Rundle

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Ladder rung

19
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Sanguisugent

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Bloodsucking

20
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Saponify

A

To convert to soap

21
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Scissel

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The strip of metal from which the the blanks for coins are made

22
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Eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious

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Very good

23
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Eriff

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A two year old canary

24
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Errhine

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Made to be snuffed into the nose

25
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Exigent

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Urgent,needing immediate attention

26
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Fenks

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Whale blubber refuse; rotten blubber

27
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Fescue

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A small stick used by teachers to point at letters of numbers

28
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Ganch

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To execute by impaling on hooks

29
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Gelogenic

A

Tending to produce laughter

30
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Helminthous

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Infested with worms

31
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Hippocaust

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The burning of a horse in sacrifice

32
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Ichor

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In mythology, the fluid that ran instead of blood in the veins of the gods

33
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Ignivomous

A

Vomiting fire

34
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Impavid

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Without fear

35
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Izzard

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Ancient term for the letter z

36
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Jargoon

A

A second-rate zircon

37
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Keckle

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To preserve from chafing by covering with powder

38
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Tacenda

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Things that should not be mentioned

39
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Thunk

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A very light verse that plays with syntax

40
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Xenoglossia

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Understanding a language that one has never learned

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