Faulkner Vocab Flashcards

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scuttering

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To move with a clattering, scurrying around

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2
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myriad

A

a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things

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decorous

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characterized by dignified properly in conduct, manner, appearance, or character.

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4
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trifling

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a matter, affair, or circumstance of trivial importance or significance

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5
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abject

A

utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or watched

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6
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approbation

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approval, commenciation

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7
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ubiquity

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The state of capacity of being everywhere, especially at the same time

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8
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portentious

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Ominously significant or indicative

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9
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Irremediable

A

Not admitting of remedy, cure, or repair

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10
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travail

A

painfully difficult or burdensome work: toil

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fulcrum

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the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in moving a body

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Tremulous

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characterized by trembling, as from fear, nervousness, or weakness.

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13
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penurious

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extremely stingy, parsimonious, miserly

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14
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stertorous

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characterized by stertor or heavy snoring

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15
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nihilists

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those who believe that there is no objective meaning to existence

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implacable

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not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified. inexorable

17
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calculant

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given to thought, calculation

18
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infinitesimal

A

indefinitely or exceedingly small, minute

19
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fluctuant

A

fluctuating varying unstable

20
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volitional

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the act of willing, choosing, or resolving

21
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suffused

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to spread over something with liquid etc

22
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imperviousness

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the quality of being impenetrable

23
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turgid

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swollen

24
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soporific

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quality of making someone sleepy

25
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abetting

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to encourage by support, by aid, or approval especially in wrongdoing

26
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surreptitious

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to act in a stealthy manner

27
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scoriation

A

sloppily cut groove characterized by the presence of refuse material from which it was cut.

28
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uniferant

A

without inference, with no hint of

29
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hillocks

A

small hills

30
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shoat

A

a young big just after weening

31
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peremptory

A

leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal imperative

32
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expiation

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the means by which atonement or reparation is made

33
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accretion

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an increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition

34
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recessional

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of or pertaining to a recession of the clergy and choir after the service

35
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circumspection

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circumspect observation or action, caution, or prudence.