Vocab Flashcards

(44 cards)

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Mettle

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Courage
Vigor
Strength of spirit

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Indefatigable

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Tireless, unflagging, inexhaustible

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Toddy

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Usually hot drink made with liquor sugar and spices

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Germinating

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To evolve

To begin to grow

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Acquiesced

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Succumbed
Comply
Accept

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Subordinating

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to make one subservient or to treat other of less value or importance

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Sepulcher

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Tomb or grave

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Infusoria

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Bacteria

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Morass (more ass)

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Literally a swamp

A situation that confuses or impedes (blocks)

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Adherents

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Followers

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Temperate

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Moderate

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Vacillation

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Irresolution
Indecision
Inability to take a stand

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Scruple

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An ethical consideration that inhibits actions ; mental reservation

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Virility

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Manly vigor

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Pugnacious

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Combative
Belligerent (aggressive)
Truculent (aggressive)
Quarrelsome (argumentative)

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Impetuous

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Impulsive vehemence

Rash forcefulness

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Cantankerous

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Difficult or irritating to wrk with

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Inexorable

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Not to be persuaded, moved or stopped; relentless

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Obstinacy

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State of bein stubborn

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Subsistence

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Minimum food or shelter necessary to support life

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Yoke

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Frame that goes around necks of Myles to harness them to work together

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Imprudent

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Assiduously

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Diligently

Carefully

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Lucidly

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Venerable
Respected due to age | Hallowed (holy)
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Plebeian
Common people Can mean crude of coarse Vote in which entire country participates
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Fjord
Common land form in Norway | Narrow I let of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes
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Glazier
Someone who fixes glass or windows
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Pilloried
device for publicity punishing people by locking head and hands through wooden frame and holes
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Prophylactic
Something that prevents or guards from disease or harm
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Innocuous
harmless or inoffensive
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Invective
Characterized by insult or abuse Vituperative (abusive) Opprobrious (critical) Truculent (hostile)
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Insidious
Treacherous | Harming or wearing a chance to entrap
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Expediency
Consideration of whats is opportune (rather than principle) especially when this means motivated. Y self interest
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Altruism
Unselfish | Devoted to welfare of others
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Extirpate
Remove or rip by root Completely destroy Wipe out Obliterate
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Obsequious
Marked by fawning attentiveness
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Husbandry
Care, conservative and nurturing
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Exonerate
Cleared if accusation or blame
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Emancipator
One who set free
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Enigma
Puzzle | Something that's mysterious or inscrutable (unknowable)
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Distension
Acts if being swollen
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Gregarious
Sociable | Tending to associate with others
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Quixotic
Extravagantly visionary and I practice | Extravagantly chivalrous or romantic