Vocab 14-15 Flashcards

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Debacle

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Disaster

*noun

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Beget

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To create/ give birth

*verb

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Connoisseur

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Expert

*noun

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Artisan

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Someone who does a skilled craft.

*noun

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Exhume

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To dig up graves

*verb

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Enraptured

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Excited or thrilled

*adjective

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Dromedary

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A one humped camel

*noun

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Dissolution

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The end of a contract; when something breaks up

*noun

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Fester

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To generate pus

*verb

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Insouciant

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Calm, relaxed

*adjective

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Harangue

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A lecture where you talk down to somebody

*verb

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Marshall

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To assemble a group

*verb

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Asunder

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Apart

*adjective

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Atrophy

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To wither away

*verb

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14
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Chattel

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Property/slave

*noun

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Coterie

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Groupies

*noun

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Demagogue

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Leader who uses emotions to obtain power

*noun

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Desiccate

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Dry

*adjective

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Entomology

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Study of insects

*noun

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Fawn

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To show affection

*verb

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Fjord

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River between cliffs

*noun

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Gossamer

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Light webbing

*noun

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Lexicon

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Vocabulary for a region

23
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Menagerie

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A f**kin zoo

*noun