Vocab 11 & 12 Flashcards by Megan Foster | Brainscape

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A curse

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Imprecation

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Humorous lighthearted

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Jocular

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To place side by side for comparison

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Juxtapose

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Destiny fate fortune ones lot in life

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Kismet

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A sound made by a bell rung slowly for a death or s funeral

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Knell

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Tearful weepy

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Lachrymose

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Using few words short concise

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Laconic

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Softly bright or radiant, running or moving lightly over a surface

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Lambent

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Sluggish drooping from weakness

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Languid

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Lustful or lewd inciting sexual desire

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Lascivious

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Sleight of hand deception

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Legerdemain

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One who leads an immortal life

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Libertine

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An evil design or plan

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Machination

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Whirlpool turbulence agitated state of mind

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Maelstrom

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A word humorously misused

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Malapropism

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A strict disciplinarian taskmaster

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Martinet

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One who enjoys his or her own pain and suffering

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Masochist

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Lying false deceitful

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Mendacious

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Attractive in a cheap flashy way

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Meretricious

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Environment setting

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Milieu

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A vicious person

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Miscreant

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Hazy vague uncertain

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Nebulous

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Magic esp practiced by a witch

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Necromancy

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Use a new word make up a new word or definition

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Neologism

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Total rejection of established laws

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Nihilism

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Lacking strength powerless

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Impotent