#7 Flashcards
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persistent; pleading, extremely urgent
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importunate
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to smother or suffocate; to suppress or hold back
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stifle
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having the tendency to oppose or contradict; immoral, disobedient
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perverse
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to cling; to follow through without deviation
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adhere
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sutbbornly, with strength
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tenaciously
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to interfere in others’ affairs, to impose
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meddle
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very thin due to hunger or disease, feeble
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emaciated
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to order, urge, command; to forbid or prohibit, as by judicial order
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enjoin
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intention, purpose
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purport
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the face, the appearance of a person or place
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visage
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in a mocking or ridiculing manner
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derisively
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to hold, keep possession of
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retain
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the ability to act or do
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faculty
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to obtain something by threat or force
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extort
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the act of committing a crime, evil action
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perpetration
