F451 Vocab Flashcards by Jessie Y

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Phoenix

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Mythical bird

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Marionette

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Puppet manipulated by strings

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Pulverized

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To reduce to dust or powder

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Stratum

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Layer of material, often one of a number of parallel layers one upon another

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Contrasedative

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Against something tending to calm or soothe

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Olfactory

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Pertaining to the sense of smell

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Proboscis

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Protruding mouth part

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Morphine

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Sedative

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Procaine

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Spinal anesthetic

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Ballistics

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Science of projectiles

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Trajectory

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Curve described by a projectile in flight

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Proclivities

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Natural inclinations or tendencies

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Odious

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Deserving hatred or highly offensive

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Centrifuge

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Device rotates at high speeds and separates substances

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Cacophony

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Harsh discordance of sound

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Luminescent

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Emission of light

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Feigning

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Faking or imitating deceptively

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Pratfall

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Humiliating blunder or defeat

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Intellectual

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Possessing mental capacity

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Theremin

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Musical instrument with electronic tone generation

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Cadence

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Rhythm

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Suffused

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Saturated

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Retaliate

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Strike back

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Intuitively

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Knowing without reason

Insidious

Cunning

Welter

Movement

Contemptible

Vile and despicable

Subaudible

Barely able to be heard

Ruinous

Causing destruction

Quavered

Spoke with a trembling voice

Manifested

Revealed

Parried

Returned a defense (often verbal)

Rebut

Disprove

Beatific

Happy and peaceful

Perfunctory

Mechanical

Phosphorescent

Glowing

Incomprehensible

Impossible to understand

Liquefaction

Process of becoming a liquid

Fugitive

A person fleeing from pursuit

Quarry

Prey

Phantom

Apparition or ghost

Limned

Painted or drawn

Grotesque

Ugly

Juggernaut

Massive destructive force or object

Pedants

People who make a display of scholarly learning

Status quo

Unchanging state, way things are supposed to be

Incessantly

Unending, unceasing