Chapters 9 - 11 Flashcards

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A plucked string instrument associated with Ancient Greece

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Lyre

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Born out of wedlock

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Illegitimate

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Someone who shows exceptional talent at an early age

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Prodigy

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3
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A provable formula

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Theorem

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4
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A go-between

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Intermediary

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5
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Where you live

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Residence

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6
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Really really big

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Colossal

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Show or portray

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Depict

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Grand, intimidating

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Imposing

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9
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To collect a large amount of something over a period of time

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Accumulate

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10
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Notable speaking ability

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Eloquent

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11
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Discuss terms of an agreement

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Negotiate

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12
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Very unfriendly

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Hostile

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13
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Bad at doing something

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Incompetent

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14
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A competitor

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Contender

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15
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Sarcastic, say the opposite of truth for humor

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Ironic

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Humor based on opposites

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Irony

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17
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Engaged

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Betrothed

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Dangerous,unstable, unsteady

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Interrupt progress of somebody or something (seize, capture)

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Cause something to fail through carelessness, bumbler

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Shock people by bad or improper behavior (shock, disgust)

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Do something for reasons of strategy (plan, calculated, tactical)

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Very fast or brilliant (sudden, dramatic, spectacular)

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Sudden and violent upheaval that causes great change (disaster, tragic)
Cataclysmic
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Make someone furious
Infuriated
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In name only not in reality
Nominally
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Passed on by birth
Hereditary title
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Choose not to have sex, like the priesthood
Celibate
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Instigation
To get something started
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Chancellor
Head of a goverment
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Lieutenants
An army office
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Armistice
A break in the fighting
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Gullible
Easily fooled
34
Notary
Someone asking to be a lawyer
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Militia
Sailors who are vilans
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Hypocrisy
Someone who pretends to have values,fraud,phony Hyprocrite
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Ecclesiastical
Involving the Christian Church
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Squander
Use something waste fully
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Balk
Hesitate,be unwilling to move,accept
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Consequently
As A result
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Strove
To try hard (Strive)
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Casualties
Member of military,killed or injured out of combat
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Indulgences
Paying money to cover sins
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Condescending
To look down on,to behave toward others to show a way that shows you feel superior
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Restoration
To restore something bring back how it was
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Corrupt
Immoral dishonest advantage of a position of a power