Deck 4 Flashcards
(35 cards)
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Salubrious
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Health giving
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Precipice
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Steep slope
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Truant
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Shirker; someone absent w/o permission
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Ambulatory
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Able to walk around (used for hospital patients)
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Capacious
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Spacious
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Impious
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Wicked; profane
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Precipitous
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Done in a hurry
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Salutary
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Something that teaches a lesson
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Capitulate
A
Surrender
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Ossify
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Turn to bone; become fixed/rigid
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Preclude
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Prevent or make impossible
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Carping
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Constant criticism
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Lummox
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Clumsy person
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Despondent
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Having no hope; miserable
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Expatriate
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Refugee; emigrant
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Sanguinary
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Bloodthirsty; bloody
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Castigate
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Scold strongly
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Amorphous
A
Lacking in shape
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Catharsis
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Purging pent up emotions
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Machinations
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Plots and plans
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Overwrought
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Worked up; emotional
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Sardonic
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Mocking
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Preeminent
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Famous; outstanding
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Caucus
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Type of private political meeting
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Exposition
Clear explanation
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Maelstrom
Whirlpools
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Prerogative
Right or privilege
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Savant
Person with knowledge
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Incipient
Just beginning
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Magnanimous
Generous; big-hearted
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Palisade
Fence made of posts
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Prescient
Having fore-knowledge
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Cavalcade
Procession of vehicles
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Extradite
Deport from one country back to home country
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Magnate
Powerful businessman
