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WW Unit 7 Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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Autocrat

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Tyrannical person

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Dictator

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Tyrant who seizes power and does not pass it to a successor in the family line

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Despot

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Tyrant belonging to a regular line of succession (like Louis the XIV in France)

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Tyranny

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Oppressive or unjust government

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Succor

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Aid, help

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Indignation

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Justifiable anger

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Vexation

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Strong annoyance

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Wrath

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Fury, intense anger with the desire to punish or revenge

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Animosity

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Strong hostility (usually personal)

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Inert

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Inactive or lifeless

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Passive

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Unwilling to act or lead

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Indolent

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Lazy

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Listless

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Indifferent, uninterested (languid)

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Dormant

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Temporary inactivity (like sleep)

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Erratic

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Irregular, wondering, having no fixed course

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Err

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To wander from the path of virtue or truth

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Erroneous

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Wrong, devious, mistaken

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Repose

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Rest, quiet

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Repository

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Place of storage for ideas, objects, or materials

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Retinue

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Group of attendants

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Convoy

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Protecting escort at sea or a group of ships being escorted

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Sanction

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Approval, authorization

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Warrant

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Order by government agency

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Dispensation

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Approval by the church for some variation from its laws

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Strategy

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Skill in maneuvering or planning

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Tactics

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Specific devices or operations

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Fugitive

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One who flees, runaway

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Refugee

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Flees from homeland to escape danger

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Elusiveness

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Quality that makes a fugitive hard to catch

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Evaisiveness

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Skill in dodging something

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Agile

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Quick and skillful

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Exorbitant

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Excessive, unreasonable

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Extravagant

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Lavish

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Immoderate

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Not sufficiently restrained

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Insolence

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Insulting behavior, impudence

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Infernal

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Hellish, fiendish

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Diabolic(al)

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Scheme is devilish

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Exectations

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Curses

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Obeisance (obey)

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A bow or curtsy, respect

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Genuflection

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Knee-bowing in worship

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Exultant

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Joyful, jubliant

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Jubilee

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A celebration

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Jocund

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Manner that is cheerful but not quite exultant

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Acute

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Sharp, severe, perceptive

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Discernment

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Clear seeing

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Astuteness

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Mental sharpness

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Implicit

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Unquestioning, implied

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Explicit

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Clearly stated

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Inferior

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Lower in place or quality

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Inane

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Senseless, empty

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