WSL 26 Flashcards

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Anomally

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Something that devices from the standard

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Beautify

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To make blissfully

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Clamored

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To make insistent demands or complaints

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Contingent

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Likely but not certain to occur

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Delectable

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Greatly pleasing to taste

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Epithet

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Term used to characterize person or thing

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Ingenious

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Showing great skill in creating

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Inviolable

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Never to be broken

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Mellifluous

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Sweet or musical

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Obfuscate

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To darken, render obscure

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Pertinacious

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Holding firmly to purpose or belief

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Precursor

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That which precedes

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Pugnacious

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Eager to fight

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Reprehensible

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Deserving of criticism

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Sinecures

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A position or office that requires little or no work

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Sojourn

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Temporary stay

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Surreptitious

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Performed, made or acquired secretly

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Transfixed

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To paralyze with horror, wonder or an astonishment

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Unscrupulous

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Devoid of moral concerns

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Absconded

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To leave quickly