Lesson 22-23 Flashcards
1
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Arable
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Can be farmed (land)
2
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Arboreal
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Relating to trees
3
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Aspersion
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Gossip
4
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Auspicious
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Foretelling well for the future
5
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Avant-grande
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Cutting-edge, new
6
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Behemoth
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A huge animal, of great size or power
7
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Bequest
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A gift upon one’s death
8
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Breadth
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Range or scope
9
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Brook (verb)
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To endure, to put up with
10
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Bungle
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To mess up
11
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Byzantine
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Ornate, fancy
12
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Calumny
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Ruining Someone’s reputation
13
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Celerity
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Swiftness, speed
14
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Chagrin
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Embarrassment and disappointment
15
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Circumscribe
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Limit
16
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Cloying
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Overly sweet, saccharine
17
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Confound
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Confuse, perplex
18
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Conjecture
A
A guess
19
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Constituents
A
Voters
20
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Convoluted
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Complicated, complex
21
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Crude
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Rude, lacking refinement
22
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Curtail
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To shorten, abridge
23
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Decorous
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Having manners and propriety
24
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Denuded
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Made infertile or ineffective
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Desultory
Lacking plan or purpose
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Diaphanous
See-through, transparent
27
Didactic
Teaching
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Dilatory
Aimless
29
Dirge
Funeral song
30
Discomfited
Embarrassed, disconcerted
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Discretionary
Based on personal choice
32
Divine
Heavenly, god
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Disingenuous
Dishonest, insincere
