Vocab Master List 09 Flashcards by Eric Stevens | Brainscape

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pine

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grieve

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ignominy

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disgrace

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affront

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an insult

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auspice

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support

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burlesque

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comic play

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intransigent

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inflexible

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facetious

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not intended to be taken serioiusly

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raillery

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good-humored ridicule (banter)

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miser

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a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to hoard money

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abase

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to degrade

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precocious

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unusually advanced in development

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pertinacious

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firmly held

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prolix

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long and wordy

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incubus

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encumbrance

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eschew

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shun

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feign

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to represent fictitiously

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panegyric

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speech praising someone

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divest

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get rid of

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inveigh

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to protest

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fatuous

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foolish

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contumacious

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stubbornly perverse (rebellious)

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adroit

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expert in the use of hands or body

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shirk

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avoid

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contentious

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quarrelsome

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germane

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relevant

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coda

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concluding part

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arrant

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notorious

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prevaricate

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to lie

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amalgamate

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combine

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anachronism

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something out of place in time

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hubris

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arrogance

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wan

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sickly pallor

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salient

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prominent

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allay

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to put to rest

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solicitous

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anxious

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despondent

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dejection (discouragement)

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penury

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destitution (poverty)

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primordial

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present form the beginning of time

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fervid

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passionate

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pulchritude

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beauty

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fell

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cruel

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fallow

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uncultivated

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indolent

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lazy

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exigency

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urgent matter

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apostate

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person who forsakes their cause

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descry

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catch sight of

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propensity

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a natural inclination

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byzantine

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complex

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indignant

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displeasure