Vocab Flashcards

Unknown words from the novel. (80 cards)

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Cirque

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Amphitheatre shaped valley formed by glacial erosion

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Contemptously

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In a scornful way which shows distain

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Dubiety

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A state of uncertainty

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Ebullience

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Being cheerful or energetic

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Errant

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Straying from the acceptable course

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Enveloped

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Surround

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Officious

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Asserting authority

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Coign

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Projecting angle of a wall

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Tumult

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A loud confused noise often from a crowd

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Festooned

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Adorning with decorations

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Tirade

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A long angry speech of criticism/accusation

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Indignantly

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A manor indicating annoyance at something perceived as unfair

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Unheeded

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heard or noticed but disregarded

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Gaudy

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Extravagantly bright or showy

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Fertive

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Attempting to avoid detection/attention

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Avidly

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With great interest or enthusiasm

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Inscrutable

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Impossible to understand or interprit

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Accustomed

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Usual

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Vicissitudes

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A change in circumstance or fortune, typically a bad one

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Antagonism

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Active hostility or opposition

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Declivities

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A downward slope

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Rapt

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Completely fascinated or absorbed

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Tacit

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Implied without statement

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Flaunted

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Display something with an intent to impress

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Perceptible
A slight change able to be seen and noticed
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Susurration
Whispering or rattling
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Whelming
Engulf, submerge or bury
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Opales
Hydrated silica in a quartz like form
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Cence
?
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Corporate
A large company or group
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Chastisement
Punish, sometimes by beating
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Comprehension
The ability to understand things
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Sinewy
Lean and muscular
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Incredulously
In a manor indicating disbelief
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Tacit(ly)
Implied without being directly stated
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Outsider
A person who does not belong
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Bloodied
Stained in blood
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Malevolently
Having or showing a wish to do evil to others
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Jeeringly
Rude or mocking remark, usually in a loud voice
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Perpetually
Never changing/ending
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Assent
The expression of approval or agreement
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Effigy
A sculpture or model of a person
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Condemnation
Very strong dissaproval
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Lamentation
Passionate expression of grief or sorrowing
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Decorum
Good behaviour
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Indigo
A dark blue dye
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Infinite
Limitless or endless amounts
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Perilous
Full of danger risk
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Mimicry
Immitation
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Scar
The mark left (from the plane)
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Creepers
A plant growing from the ground
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Garter
Elastic worn around the leg to hold up socks
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Fledged
Just grown
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Prominent
Projecting from something
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Proclaimed
Publicly announced
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Specious
Superficially plausible, but wrong (misleading)
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Hastened
Quick to do something
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Efflorescence
A white powdery deposit in dry regions such as the surface of rocks
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Vainly
In a way producing no result
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Effulgence
Brightness to the extreme
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Enmity
A state or feeling of active hostility
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ill-omened
Bad intentions
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Decorous
Polite and restrained
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Strident (blare)
A loud harsh grating sound
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(strident) Blare
A loud harsh sound
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Bouts
A short period of intensive activity
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Gorging
Filling with food
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Speculated
A theory or conjecture without strong evidence to back up
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Incredulous
Unwilling or unable to believe something
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Duplication
The action of duplicating or doubling something
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Vital
Essentail
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Furtive
Attempting to avoid attention
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Suffusion
Slowly spreading through something else
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Pallor
An unhealthy pale appearance
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Indignation
Anger provoked by unfair treatment
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Pliant
Easily bent/swayed
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Immured
Enclose or confine, against will
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Communion
Shared participation
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Twining
Interlace
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Contemptously
In a scornful way showing distain