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Vocab Unit 9 Flashcards

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Hybrid

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Mixed offspring; produced by cross-breeding; mixture of words

Compound

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Husbandry

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The practice of cultivating the land or raising stock

Farming

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Hyperbole

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Extravagant exaggeration

Embellishment

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Hypocritical

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Professing feelings or virtues one does not have

Pretending

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Iconoclast

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Someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions; a destroyer of images used in religious worship

Heretic

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Idiosyncratic

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Peculiar to the individual

Distinctive

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Imperial

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Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; befitting or belonging to an emperor or empress

Regal

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Impudent

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Marked by casual disrespect; improperly forward or bold

Shameless

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Inchoate

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Only partly in existence; imperfectly formed

Undeveloped

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Incite

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To provoke

Encourage

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Inconspicuous

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Not prominent or readily noticeable

Hidden

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Incorrigible

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Impervious to correction by punishment

Hopeless

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Indignant

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Angered at something unjust or wrong

Furious

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Indolent

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Slow to heal or develop and usually painless; disinclined to work or exertion; lazy

Lethargic

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Ineffable

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Too sacred to be uttered, defying expression or description

Heavenly

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Innocuous

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Producing no injury; harmless

Innocent

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Insolent

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Unrestrained be convention or propriety; marked by casual disrespect

Impudent

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Intuition

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Instinctive knowing

Hunch

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Invocation

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The act of appealing for help; a incantation used in conjuring or summoning a devil; a prayer asking God’s help as part of a religious service; calling up a spirit or devil

Summon

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Irascrible

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Characterized by anger; quickly aroused to anger

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