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32 Cards in this Set
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MASTERY
page 281 |
Meaning: Possession or dis-
play of great skills or knowledge. |
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INTRIGUING
page 280 |
Meaning: Something extremely
interesting. |
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SWIFT
page 281 |
Meaning: Alert, ready or
capable of moving with great speed. |
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METAMORPHOSES
page 280 |
Meaning: To make a substantial
change. |
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ELIMINATION
page 282 |
Meaning: To leave out or
ignore. |
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PETULANCE
page 278 |
Meaning: Marked by capricious
ill humor. |
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AROUSED
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Meaning: To stir up.
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DIVERSE
page 281 |
Meaning: Not sorted into
categories. |
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INDISPUTABLY
page 282 |
Meaning: Unquestionable or no
dispute. |
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AGGRAVATED
page 280 |
Meaning: To make more severe.
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FOLKLORE
page 281 |
Meaning: Customs, beliefs,
stories and sayings of people handed from generation to generation. |
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FATE
page 283 |
Meaning: End or outcome of
something or person. |
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SUCCOMB
page 282 |
Meaning: To suffer a defeat
to yield to superior strength of force or overpowering appeal or desire. |
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SEGREGATED
page 278 |
Meaning: To cut off from
others especially to separate by races. |
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EPITHETS
page 282 |
Meaning: A characterizing and
often abusive word or phrase. |
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HYPNOTIZED
page 280 |
Meaning: Resembles
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DISENFRANCHISEMENT
page 282 |
Meaning: Legal right or
privelege. |
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TIMBRE
page 281 |
Meaning: The distinctive
quality given to a sound by its overtones. |
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CORRELATION
page 282 |
Meaning: To connect in a
systematic way. |
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GAUDY
page 278 |
Meaning: Tasteless
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ARTICULATE
page 281 |
Meaning: Able to speak, also
expressing oneself readily and effectively. |
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EXASPERATION
page 278 |
Meaning: Vexation.
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ASSERTIONS
page 282 |
Meaning: A positive state-
ment. |
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EVOLVED
page 281 |
Meaning: To develop or change.
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SLUMS
page 282 |
Meaning: A thickly populated
area marked by poverty and dirty or deterioted houses. |
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STRINGMENT
page 283 |
Meaning: Severity, scarcity
or strictness. |
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DISPROPORTIONATE
page 282 |
Meaning: Unbalance or
irregular. |
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ABSORBED
page 281 |
Meaning: To take in and make
part of existence. |
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NOTION
page 278 |
Meaning: An idea or conception
or a belief held. |
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CONFOUNDING
page 280 |
Meaning: To throw into dis-
order or confusion. |
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WAIL
page 281 |
Meaning: To make a sound
suggestive of a mournful cry. |
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COMPLEX
page 280 |
Meaning: A group of repressed
desires and memories that takes special influence on one's personality or behavior. |
