Vocab: Chpt. 3 Flashcards by Tanisha Badrinath

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(adj.) magical

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fey

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(adj.) happy, cheery, or homosexual

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gay

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(adj.) inclined to spread throughout

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pervasive

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(v.) to drench, saturate

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douse

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(adj.) flexible, bendable

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pliable

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(n.) the creation of new words, or a new word

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neologism

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(adj.) worthy of praise

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commendable

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(adj.) abundant, lavish, prolific

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profuse

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(adj.) in great numbers

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abundant

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(adj.) bright; beaming

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radiant

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(adj.) fertile, fruitful

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fecund

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(v.) to delay, impede

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forestall

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(v.) to hunt or fish illegally

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poach

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(v.) to restrain, chain, tie

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fetter

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(adj.) symbolic

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figurative

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(adj.) many, of great numbers

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myriad

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(n.) a great number, an abundance

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plethora

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(adj.) sacred, holy

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sacrosanct

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(v.) to invent, make up, concoct

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fabricate

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(adj.) easy

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facile

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(adj.) silly, foolish

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fatuous

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(adj.) showing little enthusiasm, done as duty

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perfunctory

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(adj.) required, not optional

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mandatory

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(adj.) limp

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flaccid

(adj.) astounded, stupefied

flabbergasted

(v.) to rummage, scavenger, graze for food

forage

(adj.) immoral, lewd

licentious

(adj.) vulgar, offensive, rude

lewd

(adj.) indecent, blasphemous

profane

(adj.) lucky, occurring by chance

fortuitous

(n.) the act of finding things not sought, luck

serendipity

(v.) to abolish, often by authority

abrogate

(adj.) frigid, cold

algid

(adj.) wintry, relating to winter

brumal, hiemal

(adj.) excessively poor

impecunious

(adj.) unlucky

hapless

(n.) an interruption in continuity, a break

hiatus

(adj.) sociable, outgoing

gregarious

(n.) someone who asks questions or makes an inquiry

inquisitor

(n.) a wicked act, a sin

inquity

(v.) to urge, provoke

goad

(adj.) marked by special intelligence

ingenious

(v.) to live, exist

subsist

(n.) infamy, known in bad regard

notoriety

(v.) to coax through flattery

blandish

(n.) compliments, sycophancy

flattery

(adh.) harmless

innocuous

(n.) a newborn baby

neonate

(adj.) without interruption

incessant

(v.) to tell a story

narrate

(v.) to scorn, ignore, show contempt for

flout

(n.) a schoolteacher

pedadogue

(v.) to hit or strike

buffet

(adj.) daily, everyday

quotidian