Chap 7 Flashcards

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Consummate

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Amazing, best-of the-best

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Notorious

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well-Known

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Incorrigible

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Beyond reform

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Inveterate

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Deep-rooted habit

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Congenital

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Happening at or during birth

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Chronic

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Over and over and over again

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Pathological

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Diseased,

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Unconscionable

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Lack of regret or remorse

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Glib

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Smooth, suspiciously fluent

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Egregious

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Outstandingly bad or vicious

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Childlike

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Sweet Innocence

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Childish

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Ignorant

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Consummate (vr)

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To bring to the highest point

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Veteran

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And old hand at the game

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Genetics

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Science of heredity

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Gene

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Carries heredity

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Genealogy

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Study of ancestry

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Genital

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Reproductive parts

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Heredity

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Traits passed on to offspring

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Anachronism

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Someone or something out of DATE

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Incongruous

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Chronological

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In correct time order

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Chronometer

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Highly accurate timepiece

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Chronometry

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The measurement of time

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Pathology (1)
Diseased
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Pathology (2)
The study of disease
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Sympathy
To share/understand another's feelings
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Antipathy
Strongly dislike
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Apathy
Indifferent
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Empathy
To identify with those feelings
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Pathetic
Suffering to arouse sympathy
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Telepathy
ESP; communication from a distance
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Omniscient
All knowing
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Prescient
Knowing before things happen
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Nescient
Not knowing, ignorant
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Gregarious
Someone who enjoys being in a flock of others
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Congregate
A gathering flock
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Aggregate
A group of individuals who have came together
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Segregate
Pulling people out of the flock