Chinese Cinderella Vocab Flashcards by Rhiannon Kilduff

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Restraining oneself from desires

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Abstinence

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Old saying that people believe is true

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Adage

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In progress

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Afoot

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With limbs bent in odd shape

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Akimbo

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Quick and eager action

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Alacrity

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Worried or afraid

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Apprehensive

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An area shaded and enclosed by trees

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Arbor

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Enthusiastically, passionately

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Ardently

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A central courtyard or roofed garden

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Atrium

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An almost harsh lack of luxury

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Austere

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Ordered not to return

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Banished

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Knives attached to the end of rifles

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Bayonets

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To beg or plead

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Beseech

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To weep for

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Bewail

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Glaringly obvious

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Blatant

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Cheerful with out thought it worry

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Blithely

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Abruptly in manner or speech

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Brusquely

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Cheerful, not easily saddened

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Buoyant

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The principles of Christian religion learnt by wrote

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Catechism

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Displeasure due to disappointment or humiliation

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Chagrin

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Continuous smoking

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Chain smoking

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Refraining from obscene practices

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Chastity

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Overpowering and disgusting

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Cloying

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Having an excessively high opinion of oneself

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Conceited

Rice porridge

Congee

To comfort

Console

Concerning a secret plan among a group of people

Conspiratorial

To interpret from clues

Construe

Scornful with disdain

Contemptuous

Twisted

Contorted

To go against

Contradict

Showing sincere guilt and remorse

Contrite

Wanting something that isn’t yours

Covet

Feeling like something has happened before

Deja vu

Quickly and skillfully

Deftly

To condescend or proudly lower oneself to

Deign

Extreme sadness

Desolation

Local form of language

Dialect

Difficulty involving a choice

Dilemma

To look down on

Disdain

A sequence of rulers from the same family

Dynasty