Vocabulary 51-100 Flashcards

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Nebula

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A cloud of dust or gas, possible eye problem

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Mutation

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Change or alteration in form or qualities

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Nocturnal

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Active at night

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Nuisance

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Something that is a pain or causes a problem or legal issue

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Omnivore

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Animal that eats both plants and meat

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Outrageous

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Greatly exceeding the bounds of reason or moderation

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Ozone

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A colorless gas

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Parasite

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An animal or plant that lives on a host without benefit to the hose

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Participle

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Nonfinite form of the verb

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Phloem

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Takes food substance where needed

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Plateau

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A raised area of land located in a generally flat area

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Polygon

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Shape with five sides

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Protagonist

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The main good character of the story

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Pulverize

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To make into powder or dust

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Quandary

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State of uncertainty

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Quota

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Limitation of imports

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Quarantine

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To put people with medical issue away from healthy others

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Rainforest

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Land with many unique plants and animals

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Random

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Choosing something for no rhyme or reason

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Recede

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Become faint or distant

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Renaissance

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Period of time involving learning of culture and art

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Renegade

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Having deserted cause or principle

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Repose

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Freedom from activity

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Sacrifice

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Surrendering something as an act or reason or mistake

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Silhouette
Drawing of shadow or outline
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Solstice
Sun greatest distance from equator
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Spectrum
An order of components
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Stereotype
Basing something off based knowledge about a person or idea gender or race
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Strategy
A plan
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Suffrage
Legal right
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Symbiosis
Relation of two different species
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Tariff
Tax
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Technique
A way of doing something
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Tempo
How fast or slow
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Toxin
A poison or something to make you sick
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Tranquility
Peace
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Tumult
Noisy disturbance
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Tundra
And icy climate
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Ultraviolet
X-rays
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Unanimous
Unnamed
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Undulate
Wavy margin rippled surface
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Vaccine
Medicine to make you immune to virus
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Vacillate
Move or sway
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Vertebrae
Part of spine
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Virtuoso
Dazzlingly skilled in anything
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Voracious
Craving food
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Wretched
Very unhappy
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Xylem
Woodsy part of planes
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Yacht
Large boat
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Zoology
Study of animal