Ch 9-13 Vocab

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Shrewd

Back 1

Based on good judgment and probably correct

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Corroborate

Back 2

To give or represent evidence of the truth of something

Front 3

Idiosyncrasy

Back 3

A way of behaving thinking or feeling that is peculiar to an individual or group especially an odd or unusual one

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Perjury

Back 4

The telling of a lie after having taken an oath to tell the truth usually in court of law

Front 5

Malicious

Back 5

Deliberately harmful

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Truncheon

Back 6

Police officer stick

Front 7

Hearsay

Back 7

Second hand information

Front 8

Recrimination

Back 8

Accusing someone in return

Front 9

Discourse

Back 9

Serious speech or piece of writing

Front 10

Cosh

Back 10

Weighted weapon, similar to a leather club

Front 11

Heliograph

Back 11

An apparatus that is used to send messages in Morse code by flashes of reflected sunlight

Front 12

Noncommittal

Back 12

Not making clear any personal opinions or feelings about something

Front 13

Accord

Back 13

To give somebody or something a particular status or treatment

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Draught

Back 14

Game of checkers

Front 15

Whilst

Back 15

While

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Listless

Back 16

Weary and uninterested

Front 17

Respective

Back 17

Bearing according to each of the people or things concerned

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Fiend

Back 18

Somebody regarded as wicked or cruel

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Skein

Back 19

Bundle of yarn

Front 20

Tenacious

Back 20

Determined or stubborn

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Pall

Back 21

Dark covering

Front 22

Abated

Back 22

Become less

Front 23

Macintosh

Back 23

Raincoat

Front 24

Gimlet

Back 24

Tool for boring holes in wood

Front 25

Affably

Back 25

Easy going

Front 26

Ascertained

Back 26

Determine something

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Laconically

Back 27

Using few words

Front 28

untenanted

Back 28

vacant

Front 29

Demeanor

Back 29

Outward behavior

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cumbrous

Back 30

Cumbersome

Front 31

Aback

Back 31

Backward, formerly

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Dint

Back 32

By the force of something

Front 33

Fraught

Back 33

Full of

Front 34

Eon

Back 34

Time

Front 35

Gall

Back 35

Boldness, audacity

Front 36

Pretense

Back 36

Insecure behavior

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Tacit

Back 37

Implied but not expressed

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Chancery

Back 38

Politics

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Veneer

Back 39

Outer layer

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Lithe

Back 40

Flexible and supple

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Larder

Back 41

Food storage place

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Bestial

Back 42

Inhuman

Front 43

Pitiable

Back 43

Deserving pity or compassion

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Siphon

Back 44

Draw liquid through a tube