Chapter 3-5 vocab Flashcards

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Base

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The lowest or bottom part

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Extolment

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High praise

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Churlish

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Difficult to work with

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Conjuration

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Influence or effect by a supernatural power

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Perdition

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Loss of the soul; eternal damnation

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Aloof

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Distant physically or emotionally

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Felicity

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Great happiness; bliss

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Carnal

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Of or relating to the body or flesh; bodily

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Commingled

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Blended

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Knavish

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Unprincipled

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Contagion

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Harmful or corrupting influence

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Sinews

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Tendons; muscles

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Visage

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The face or facial expression

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Piteous

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Demanding or arousing pity

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Scourge

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Means of inflicting severe suffering, vengeance or punishment

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Superfluous

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Being beyond what is required or sufficient

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Divulging

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Becoming known

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Discord

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Tension or strife

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Replication

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A reply to an answer; a rejoinder

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Convocation

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Imminent

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About to occur; impending

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Abatements

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Reductions in amount, degree or intensity

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Spiteful

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Afflict

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To indict grievous physical or mental suffering on

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Prodigal
Rashly or wastefully extravagant
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Filial
Relationship of child or offspring to parent
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Portentous
Full of unspecific able significance
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Beseech
To address and earnest or urgent request
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Contrive
A means of inflicting severe suffering, vengeance or punishment
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Epitaph
An inscription on a tombstone
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Vow
An earnest promise