Chapter 22 Flashcards

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Luminous

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Glowing or bright

Relating to light

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Ineptly

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Lacking skill or ability

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Impetuosity

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Impulsive

Doing quickly with little thought

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Goad

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Rod to move animals

Something that moves people

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Ramifications

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Something that is the result of an action

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Paternalistic

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Governing intrusively

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Coercion

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To make someone do something by using force or threats

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Inequities

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Lack of fairness

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Strident

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Sounding harsh or unpleasant

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Retroactivity

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Extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed in the past

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Guile

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The use of clever and usually dishonest methods to achieve something

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Pecuniary

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Consisting of or measured in money

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Debacle

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A great disaster or complete failure

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Fester

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To become worse as time passes

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Contours

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The general structure or outline of something

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Resuscitation

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To bring back to a concours or active state