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Vocab Unit 3 Flashcards

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Brevity

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The attribute of being brief or fleeting; the use of brief expressions

Curtness

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Blunder

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An embarrassing mistake
Utter impulsively; make one’s way clumsily or blindly

Fault

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Bucolic

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Relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; used of idealizing country life

Agriculture

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Bungle

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Spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly making a mess of, destroy or ruin
An embarrassing mistake

Butcher

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Burgeon

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Grow and flourish

Blossom

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Cajole

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To deceive or persuade with false pretenses

Delude

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Callous

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Make insensitive, deaden feelings or morals
Emotionally hardened

Apathetic

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Candid

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Openly straight forward and direct without reserve or secretiveness, informal or natural

Blunt

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Cantankerous

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Having a difficult and contrary disposition, stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate

Disagreeable

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Capitulate

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To surrender under agreed conditions

Bow

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censure

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Harsh criticism or disapproval; the state of being excommunicated
Rebuke formally

Condemnation

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Chagrin

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Strong feelings of embarrassment
Cause to feel shame; hurt pride of

Shame

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Charlatan

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A quack or one showing false pretenses

Imposter

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Chicanery

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The use of tricks to deceive someone

Deception

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Churlish

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Having a bad disposition, surly, rude, and boorish

Grumpy

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Clairvoyant

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Someone who has the power of clairvoyance
Someone who can foresee the future

Psychic

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Clemency

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Leniency and compassion shown toward offenders of rule or law

Forgivingness

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Coalesce

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Fuse of cause to grow together, mixing, together different elements

Unite

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Cohere

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Cause to form a united orderly and aesthetically consistent whole; come in close contact

Follow

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Capricious

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Determined by chance or implies or whim rather than by necessity or reason; changeable

Variable

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