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Words Flashcards

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Orthodox

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Conventional

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Salutary

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Something that teaches you a lesson, beneficial

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Precipice

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Steep slope

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Desecrate

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To damage or pollute holy place

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Ornate

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Highly decorated

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Frankincense

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A sweet, smelling incense

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Observant

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Quick to notice

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Tiff

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Minor argument

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Regiment

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Military unit

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Nurture

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To take care

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Incessant

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Without pause or stop

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Satiate

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To satisfy

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Effusive

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Emotionally unrestrained

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Stickler

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Person who insists on something

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Sagacity

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Wisdom

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Connoisseur

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Appreciator and judge of art

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Heather

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An evergreen plant

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Self possessed

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Confident

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Truncate

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Cut short

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Ludicrous

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Ridiculous

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Ruble

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Russian currency

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Crimson

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Deep red

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Begrudge

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To give reluctantly

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Fond

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To like

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Conflagration

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Great fire

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Opaque

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Allowing little light to pass through

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Precipitous

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Done in a hurry

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Truant

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Someone absent without permission

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Skepticism

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Doubt, or disbelief

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Mutton

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Sheep

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Coriander

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A herb, also known as, cilantro

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Would

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Maybe, hope, wish to happen

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Dejected

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Upset and depressed

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Perilous

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Dangerous

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Scanty

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Insufficient

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Nonplussed

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Confused to the point of being unable to act or speak

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Unanimous

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In complete agreement

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Ominous

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Threatening

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39
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Derogatory

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Uncomplimentary

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40
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Affect
/Effect

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Affect - verb, to influence
Effect - noun, the result

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Girdle

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That which encircles

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42
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Crimson

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Deep red

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43
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Mutton

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Sheep

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Enigmatic

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Puzzling

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Procure

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To obtain

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46
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Poignantly

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Intensely

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Abstain

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Not partaking in some activity or action

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Articulate

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Well spoken

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49
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Discourse

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The verbal interchange of ideas

50
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Exhortation

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Urging or incitement by strong appeals

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Innumerable

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Too many to be counted

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Conjecture

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To infer

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Deformity

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Disfigurement

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Despondence

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discouragement

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Arbiter

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One who decides or holds the power

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Supple

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Flexible

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Execration

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Utter devastation

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Genial

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Favorable to growth or comfort

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Verdure

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Lush vegetation

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Tinge

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To affect or modify in character

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Capacious

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Spacious

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Anecdote

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A short, usually funny story

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Nondescript

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Featureless and thus hard to describe

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Truncate

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Cut short

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Truant

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Someone absent without permission

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Antidote

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Remedy for poison

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Impious

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Wicked

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Exemplify

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To serve as a good example

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Extenuating

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Lessening, reducing/ guilt diminishing

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Convalesce

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Get better after illness

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Incessant

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Never stopping/ending

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Valor

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Bravery

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Sever

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To cut or separate

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School

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Group of fish

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Levity

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Lack of seriousness

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Vast

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Very great, enormous

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Foolhardy

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Unthinking and rash

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Pervasive

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Spread through every part

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Spontaneity

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Impulsive action

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Conjecture

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Speculation

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Reverence

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Profound respect

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Intractable

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Hard to manage

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Conciliating

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Agreeable

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Derision

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Mockery

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Perfidious

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Disloyal

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Illusion
Allusion
Elusive
Delusion

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Deceiving
To reference art or culture
Hard to grasp
Crazy

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Spurious

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Phony, false

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Emaciated

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Very skinny

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Ablution

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A washing or cleansing

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Blithesome

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Cheerful

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Castigate

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to punish

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Coerce

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To force

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Decapitate

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To behead

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Egotism

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Self-conciet

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Fawn

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A young deer

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Dormant

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Not active

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Efface

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Erase

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Embitter

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Cause someone to feel bitter

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Empirical

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Based on observation and experimentation

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Endorse

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Approve, support

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Enigma

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Mystery

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Equitable

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Fair

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Fathom

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Understand

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Generic

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General, not specific

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Hail

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Signal, greet, call out

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Forbearance

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Patience, self control, restraint

107
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Alliteration

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When there is multiple repeating should sounds or letters, adjacent or next to each other
Eg sweet birds sang

108
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Incarnate

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In the flesh

109
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Incredulous

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Disbelieving, skeptical

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Lofty

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Tall

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Malign

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Evil

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Myopic

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Nearsighted

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Odiferous
(Or odoriferous)

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Having a strong, unpleasant smell

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Opaque

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Not transparent

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Plebeian

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Common citizen

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Quash

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Reject

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Rejuvenate

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Make young again

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Hedonist

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Pleasure seeker

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Silo

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Storage unit

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Intuitive

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Instinctive, untaught

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