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Vocab Flashcards

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Indecorous

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Violating generally accepted standards of good taste

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Entail

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To limit the passage of estate to a specific line of heirs (usually males)

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Barouche

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A four wheeled carriage with a high front seat

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Amiable

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Friendly or sociable

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Connoisseur

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A person with expert knowledge of training especially in the fine arts

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Insinuate

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Restlessness or uneasiness

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Vulgar

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Crude, coarse, unrefined

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Mortified

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To cause to experience shame

HUMILIATE

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Constitution

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Physical character of the body (strength or health)

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Fortitude

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Mental or emotional strength in facing difficulties

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Venture

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An undertaking involving uncertainty as to the outcome. ESP a risky of dangerous one

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Trifle

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

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Languid

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Lacking of vigor. Slack or slow

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Knave

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A dishonest person

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Avarice

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Extreme greed for wealth of material gain.

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Appeased

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To satisfy ones demands

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Indolence

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Laziness

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Maxim

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A short statement expressing general truth or rule of conduct

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Decorous

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In keeping with good taste and propriety

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Caper

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Skip or dance lively

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Strident

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Long and harsh

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Specious

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Superficially plausible but actually wrong

Misleading

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Flaunt

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Display something

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Officious

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Volunteering ones services where they are not asked or needed

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Furtive

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Suggestive of guilty nervousness

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Iridescent

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Colors that change at different angles

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Incantation

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Words used in a magic spell

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Ululation

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A long loud mournful cry of howl

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