Vocab 12 Flashcards

(35 cards)

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Allotment

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A portion or thing allotted; a share granted

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Crucible

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A container of metal or refractory material employed for heating substances to high temperatures

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Salutary

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Favorable to or promoting health; healthful

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Abdicate

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To renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, especially in a formal manners

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Magnitude

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Size; extend; dimensions

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Anguish

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Excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain

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Solace

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Comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble; alleviation of distress or discomfort

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Insidious

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Intended to entrap or beguile

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Subjugation

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The act, fact, or process oh subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement

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Supplication

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An act or instance of supplicating; humble prayer, entreaty, or petition

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Remonstrate

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To say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval

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Spurn

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To reject with disdain; scorn

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Contempt

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The feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn

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Inviolate

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Free from violation, injury, desecration, or outrage

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15
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Base

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Morally low, dishonorable, selfish

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Formidable

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Causing fear, apprehension, or dread

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Invincible

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Incapable of being conquered, defeated, or subdued

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Vigilant

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Keenly watchful to detect danger; wary

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Extenuate

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To represent (a fault, offense, etc) as less serious

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Impel

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To drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action

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Abolish

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To do away with; put an end to; annul; make void

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Transient

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Not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory

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Usurp

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To seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right

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Evince

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To show clearly; make evident or manifest; prove

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Constrain
To force, compel, or oblige
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Relinquish
To renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc)
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Render
To cause to be or become; make
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Perfidy
Deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery
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Consanguinity
Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; kinship
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Acquiesce
To assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent
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Redress
The setting right of what's wrong
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Warranted
Authorization, sanction, or justification
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Conjure
To affect or influence by or as if by invocation or spell
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Kindred
A persons relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin
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Oxymoron
A figure of speech producing a self contradictory effect (icy heat)