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English I Flashcards

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Integral

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Essential

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Havoc

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Great destruction

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Knoll

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A little rounded hill

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Miser

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Stingy, greedy person; one who hoards money

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Momentary

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Lasting only a moment

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Monumental

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Very great, massive

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Notorious

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Well-known, but in an unfavorable way

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Oblivious

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Unmindful

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Resilient

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Bouncing back into shape;recovering strength, good spirits, and good humor quickly

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Relinquish

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To give up

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Revamp

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To redo; renovate

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Saunter

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To walk at a leisurely pace

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Slither

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To move along by sliding or gliding

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Stench

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A terrible smell

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Sultry

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Oppressively hot, fiery

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Tedious

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Tiresome, boring

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Tranquility

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Quiet, calmness, peacefulness

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Undaunted

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Not discouraged

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Vicariously

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Through another’s experience

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Zeal

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eager interest and enthusiasm; devotion

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Wrath

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Intense anger, rage, fury

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Enhance

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To make greater, to add to

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“Et tu, Brute?”

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Julius Caesar

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“Beware the ides of March”

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Julius Caesar

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“Cowards die many times before their deaths”

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Julius Caesar

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“Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears”

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Julius Caesar

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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

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Antigone

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“Whenever I dreamed of a better world, I could only imagine a universe with no bells.”

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Night

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“How could I forget that concert, given to an audience of dying and dead men!”

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Night

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“I was a body. Perhaps less then that even; a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.”

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Night

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