TOTC Vocab #2 Flashcards by Lizzie Patterson

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Disparage

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To degrade, to speak of someone or something in a derogatory manner

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Dissociate

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Separate

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Dissolution

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Disintegration, decomposition, and dispersion

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Docile

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Easily manages, obedient, passive

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Edifice

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A very large building

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Elicit

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To bring out a response, to evoke

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Emancipated

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Very thin

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Embellish

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To decorate, make beautiful with ornamentation

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Emulate

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To try to equal or to be like

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Engender

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To cause, to produce, to create

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Engrossed

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Completely occupied, absorbed

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Entreaty

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To plea

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Evanescent

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Fleeting; impermanent

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Execrable

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Extremely bad, deserving of hate

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Expeditious

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Done with speed and efficiency

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Felicitous

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Happy or delightful

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Ferocity

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Savagery

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Florid

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Flowery, flushed with color

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Forbearance

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Patience, lenience

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Foreboding

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Premonition of evil, an ominous omen

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Forensic

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Pertaining to debate or argument

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Furtive

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Secret in an underhanded way, stealthy

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Galling

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Very irritating

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Gaunt

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Very thin

Gravity

Serious, important

Hideous

Very ugly, offensive

Impel

To urge or to drive forward

Implacable

Incapable of being appeased

Impute

To blame or to charge

Incorrigible

Incapable of being reformed or improved

Infallible

Incapable of error

Infamous

Having s reputation of the worst kind

Disdain

Intense dislike; to treat with scorn or contempt, to reject as unworthy