Unit 6 Vocab Flashcards

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What means at a distance especially in feeling or interest?

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Aloof

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What means ashamed or embarrassed?

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Abashed

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What means excruciating or acute distress; suffering?

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Anguish

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What means using language easily and fluently?

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Articulate

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4
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What means to enjoy a pleasant situation?

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Bask

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What means a shortcoming fault or imperfection?

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Defect

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What means extreme delicacy or subtlety in action or performance?

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Finesse

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What means to parade or display oneself conspicuously or defiantly?

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Flaunt

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What means to go straight to the point?

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Forthright

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What means warmly and pleasantly cheerful?

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Genial

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What means to infuse slowly or gradually into the mind or feelings?

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Instill

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What means to exclude by general consent?

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Ostracize

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What means a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event?

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Premonition

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What means a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity

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Pseudonym

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What means to rid clear or impure; purify

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Purge

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What means to restore to a condition of good health?

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Rehabilitate

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What means an effect or result of some event or action?

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Repercussion

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What means characterized by firmness or determination

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Resolute

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What means retaining something

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Retentive

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What means a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place

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Scapegoat