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49 Cards in this Set
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Abject |
completely without pride or dignity |
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Adherent |
someone who sticks to a certain party, person, or set of ideas |
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Afflict |
cause physical pain or suffering |
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Aloofness |
distant or unsympathetic |
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Balminess |
mild, refreshing, soothing |
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Bourgeoisie |
social class between middle and lower class
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canteen |
sells food and personal items to schools or camps |
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chastity |
abstaining from sexual relations |
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clamor |
loud noise, loudly |
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clandestine |
Kept secret, or done secretively |
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convoluted |
folded, coiled, or twisted |
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derisive |
abusing vocally |
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dinginess |
discoloration due to being dirty |
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dissemble |
conceal one's true motives, feelings, or beliefs |
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earmark |
assign something for a certain purpose |
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folly |
acting stupid, or rashly |
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formidable |
extremely impressive in strength or excellence |
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furtive |
secret and sly, trying to avoid notice of attention |
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gesticultaing |
making gestures instead of speaking |
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grating |
unpleasantly harsh, or grating in sound |
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indoctrinated |
teach someone to accept a set of beliefs uncritically |
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inexorably |
impossible to stop or prevent |
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inextricably |
impossible to unravel or separate from something else |
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inflection |
the patterns of stress and intonation in a language |
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interminable |
extremely long, seeming without an end |
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irrepressible |
impossible to resist or control
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meagerness |
lack of quantity or quality, inadequacy |
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odious |
extremely unpleasant, repulsive |
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officiousnes |
aggressiveness as evidence by intruding; advancing ideas without invitation |
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orifice |
a hole that opens into a bodily cavity |
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paraffin |
used for candles and preservatives of waterproof clothing |
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perverse |
deviating from what is considered moral or right |
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procure |
get by a special effort |
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proliferate |
grow rapidly in numbers, multiply |
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pugnacious |
eager or quick to argue, quarrel or fight |
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relish |
great enjoyment |
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repository |
a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping |
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repudiate |
refuse to accept |
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reverie |
a state of being absorbed in one's one thoughts, daydream |
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saccharine |
overly sweet |
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sanguine |
confidently optimistic and cheerful |
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scuttle |
entrance equipped with a hatch, especially a passageway between decks of a ship |
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seldom |
not often |
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sordid |
foul or run-down and repulsive |
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specious |
plausible but false |
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succumb |
the fail or resist |
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synthetic |
a compound made artificially by chemical reactions |
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tacitly |
understood or implied without being stated |
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vapid |
offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging |