A Streetcar Named Desire Flashcards

(39 cards)

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Amiability

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Friendliness

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Absconding

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Departing secretly

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Attenuates

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Weakness

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Anthropological

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Scientific study of origin, culture, development of man

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Bestial

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marked by inhuman instincts, desires

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Blithely

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Happily

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Coquettishly

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Flirtatiously

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Contrapuntally

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Using contrast, interplay of elements

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Demureness

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Modesty

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Cosmopolitan

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Composed of persons or elements from many parts of the world

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Gravely

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Seriously

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Emphatically

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Forcefully

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Feigned

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Not genuine, real

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Gaudy

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Tastelessly ornamented

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Elysian Fields

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Paradise, place for blessed in myths

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Perplexity

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State of being puzzled, bewilderment

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Contemptuously

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Showing dislike, scorn

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Pinions

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Restrain by binding the arms

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Neurasthenic

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marked by fatigue, loss of energy, memory, feelings of inadequacy

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Indolently

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Sotto voce

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Under the breath, in an undertone

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Ghoul

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Legendary evil being that robs graves, feed on corpses

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Incredulously

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Improvident

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Not seeing, providing for the future

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Voluptuously
Acting in a manner full of delight to the senses
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Spectral
Causing revulsion
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Heterogeneous
Mixed
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Uncouth
Lacking polish, grace
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Sullen
Gloomily, resentfully silent
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Kibitiz
Offer unwanted advice, comment (at a card game)
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Incredible
Hard to believe
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Peruse
Study, examine
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Overwrought
Extremely excited
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Ominously
Foreboding evil
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Sonnet
14 line fixed verse poem
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Reproach
Blame
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Redolences
Scents, aromas
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Raffish
Marked by careless unconventionality
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Spasmodic
excited, emotional outbursts