WW 9.11 Flashcards

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Agrarian

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Relating to agriculture and tending of land

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Burgeon

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Growing or increasing rapidly

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3
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Cataclysm

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A large scale violent event in the natural world

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4
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Culinary

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Of food or cooking

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5
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Denigrate

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To criticize unfairly

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6
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Gourmet

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Relating to high quality, sometimes expensive, specialty foods

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7
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Grandiloquent

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A lofty extravagantly, colorful manner or quality

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8
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Hybrid

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An offspring of different pairings of genes (of mixed origin)

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9
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Manifold

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Many and/or various

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10
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Palatable

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A food or drink that is pleasant to taste, tolerable

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11
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Panacea

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A solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases

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12
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Plebeian

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One of the common people

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13
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Scourge

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An instrument to inflict pain or punishment

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14
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Stalemate

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A situation in which a solution of opposing parties seem impossible

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15
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Temperate

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Relating to climate with moderate temperatures

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