Speak Vocabulary Flashcards

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alleged

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Accused of having done something wrong or illegal but not yet proven guilty.

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2
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Asphyxiated

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to kill or make unconscious by depriving them of air.

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3
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Blather

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Talk that doesn’t make much sense

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4
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Conundrum

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A difficult problem

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5
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Delinquency

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Bad or illegal behavior, especially by a young person.

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Demerit

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A mark for doing something wrong.

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Demure

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Quiet and well-behaved (often used to describe a girl).

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8
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dynamics

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Someone who is full of energy

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9
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Errant

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behaving wrongly

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10
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Faction

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A group within a larger group that has different ideas and opinions than the rest of the group.

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Inciting

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To cause (somone) to act in an angry, harmful, or violent way.

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Indoctrination

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To teach (someone) to fully accept the ideas, opinions, and beliefs of a particular group and to not consider other ideas, opinions, and beliefs.

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13
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Maladjusted

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Badly adjusted to the demands of a normal social environment.

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14
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Muse

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It is a person or represented force that is the source of artistic inspiration for an artist.

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15
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Pseudo

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Not real or genuine

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16
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Recessive

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Causing or relating to a characteristic or condition that a child will have only if both of the child’s parents have it.

17
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Sanctuary

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A place where something or something is protected or given shelter.

18
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Subjectivity

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Having relation to the way a person experiences things in his or her own mind.

19
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Submission

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yielding to a superior force

20
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Tenacious

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Someone who is not easily stopped

21
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Vespiary

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A nest of social wasps. Also, a colony of wasps inhabiting such a nest.

22
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Wan

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Dark or gloomy

23
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Wistful

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Having or showing sad thoughts and feelings about something that you want to have or do and especially about something that made you happy in the past.

24
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Xenophobic

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Fear and hatred towards strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign.

25
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bigoted

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Having strong unreasonable beliefs and disliking other people who have different beliefs of a different way of life.