Set 1 Additional Words Flashcards by Audrey Jacobs

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instructive

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useful and informative

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propriety

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accepting conventional standards or morals

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infirmity

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physical or mental weakness

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zealous

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being eager

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decency

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accepeting standards of respect

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preferment

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promotion to an office or position

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venerable

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great deal of respect due to age,wisdom, or character

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vex

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make someone feel annoyed or frustrated

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casuistry

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clever but unsound reasoning

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enthrallment

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being fascinated

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wry

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dry mocking humor

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jargon

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special words used for certain groups

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ineffable

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to a great extreme

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obdurate

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refusing to change opinion or actions

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tranquility

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being calm

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pedigree

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decent of an animal

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benevolent

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well meaning and kindly

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impede

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delay or prevent something

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palliations

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to relieve or lesson

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refute

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to be wrong

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zeal

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lots of energy, enthusiasm

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ambivalence

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having mixed feelings

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effusive

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expressing gratitude

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extrude

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force out

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frailty

decline in late life

demireps

a woman who is considered doubtful

cartwrighting

building carts

rapturous

great feeling or pleasure

reverence

deep respect for someone or something

sansculottism

an extreme radical republican in France

prodigious

remarkable impressive

expenditure

spending funds

partition

dividing

discernment

ability to judge well

laudatory

expressing praise

facile

appearing neat and comprehensive

solemn

formal

Commingle

mix or blend

arpeggio

music notes

obstreperous

noisy and difficult to control

retrenchment

reduction of cost

armaments

military weapons

intemperance

lack of restraint

amalgam

a mixture or blend

commemorate

show respect

sanguine

optimistic

disparage

represent something with little worth

brevity

use of exact words in speech

mirth

amusement

acquiescing

relating to without protest

apparition

a ghost like image of a person

amalgamation

the result of combining

consummate

sexual intercourse

epochs

a period of time in someones life

permeate

spread throughout

pomps

ceremony

vainglorious

proud of ones self

devious

underhanded tactics

extirpated

destroy

exalted

a powerful person

overt

done or shown openly

celibate

abstaining from marriage and sexual activities due to religion

embryologic

formation of gowth in living animals

acerbic

sharp and forthright

extolled

to praise a lot