6B Flashcards

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Fetter

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Noun & Verb
-a chain or manacle used to restrain a prisoner, typically placed around the ankles.
-restrain with chains or manacles, typically around the ankles.
shackles, manacles, handcuffs, irons,

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Heinous

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adjective
-(of a person or wrongful act, especially a crime) utterly odious or wicked.
Evil, monstrous

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Immutable

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adjective
-unchanging over time or unable to be changed.
Fixed, set

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Insurgent

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adjective and noun
-rising in active revolt.
-a rebel or revolutionary.
Renegade, revolutionary

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Megalomania

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noun
-obsession with the exercise of power
-delusion about one’s own power or importance
Politicians, delusions of grandeur

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Sinecure

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noun
-a position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit.
Easy job, Cushy job

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Surreptitious

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adjective
-kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of.
Sly, sneaky

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Transgress

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verb
-infringe or go beyond the bounds of (a moral principle or other established standard of behavior).
-spread over land (from the sea)
Misbehave, fall from grace

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Transmute

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verb
-change in form, nature, or substance.
Alter, translate

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Vicarious

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adjective
-experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person.
-acting or done for another.
-of or pertaining to the performance by one organ of the functions done by another
Indirect, surrogate

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