July 30 Flashcards by Meeka Halperin

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Denouement

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The part of a story that provides resolution

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Proscription

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A ban

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Deposition

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A statement made in court

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Subsume

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To include or absorb in something else

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Punctilious

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Meticulous

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Repudiates

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Contradicts

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Recapitulates

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Summarizes

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Patent

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Easily recognizable

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Anoint

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To smear or rub with oil

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Collude

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To conspire in

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Construe

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Interpret

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Vanquished

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Defeated

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Cunning

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Craftness, skill in achieving one’s ends by deceit

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Ubiquitous

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Universal

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Mendacity

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Untruthfulness

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Prevarication

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When someone tells a lie

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Baseness

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Lack of moral principles, bad character

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Temporal

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Of or relating to time

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Indefatigable

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Persisting tirelessly

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Fastidious

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Meticulous, attentive to detail

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Jettison

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To throw or drop something. Abandon or discard something

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Propagate

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To spread or promote, breed specimens

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Intelligible

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Able to be understood

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Blighted

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Spoiled, harmed, destroyed

Apposite

Appropriate, suitable

Anachronistic

Something not in correct chronological time

Ahistorical

Lacking historical perspective or context

Indefensible

Not justifiable by argument

Unimpeachable

Can't be criticized

Aboveboard

Open, honest

Irascible

Having/showing a tendency to be easily angered

Pugnacious

Eager or quick to argue, fight

Imperiled

Put at risk of being harmed

Haughty

Arrogant

Truculence

Aggressive, combative

Insatiable

Impossible to satisfy

Simpering

smile or gesture - childish grin

Coy

shy, modest

Coquettish

flirty woman

snubbed

rebuffed, ignored

spurn

to reject with disdain or contempt

ennobled

lend dignity, nobility to

stultifying

causing to lose enthusiasm

spurious

counterfeit

canard

false report or rumor

enmities

hatreds and hostilities

punctilious

concerned with details

brusquely

terse

indecorous

inappropriate

soporific

inducing sleepiness