Final Flashcards

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Billet-doux

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Noun

A love letter

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Bough

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Noun

A branch of a tree

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Colossal

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Adj

Extraordinarily great in size or degree

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Consummate

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Verb

Complete, perfect, fulfill

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Dissever

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Verb

To divide into parts

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Divan

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Noun

A long low sofa

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Embark

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Verb

To board a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle on a journey

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Empathetically

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Noun

The ability to share or understand the feelings of another

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Flibbertigibbet

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Noun

An extremely talkative person

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Garland

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Noun

A wreath or festoon of flowers

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Gumption

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Noun

Courage, guts,

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Imminent

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Adj

About to happen

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Immutable

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Adj

Unchangeable

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Incorrigible

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Adj

Bad beyond correction or reform

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Indefatigable

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Adj

Incapable of being tired out

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Inscrutable

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Adj

Incapable of being investigated

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Leviathan

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Noun

Anything of immense size and power

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Loiter

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Verb

To linger aimlessly

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Magnanimous

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Adj

Generous in forgiving an insult or injury

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Malignity

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Noun

Intense hatred

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Munificence

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Noun

The quality of showing unusual generosity

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Pandour

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Noun

A brutal soldier

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Pastoral

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Adj

Having the characteristics generally associated with rural areas

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Pedantic

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Adj

Someone who is excessively concerned with minor details

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Physiognomy
Noun | A persons facial features or expression
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Porphyria
Noun | A defect of blood pigment metabolism
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Presumptuous
Adj | Failure to observe the limits as to what is permitted or appropriate
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Ravish
Adj | To fill with strong emotion
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Relish
Noun | Great enjoyment
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Renounce
Verb | To put aside voluntarily
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Sepulcher
Noun | A tomb or grave
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Sinecure
Noun | An office position requiring little or no work
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Sublime
Adj | Elevated loftily in thought
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Uncouth
Adj | Awkward clumsily
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Visage
Noun | The face usually reference to shape features or expressions