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13 Cards in this Set
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Moratorium |
a stopping of an activity for an agreed period of time: |
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Bratty |
a bratty child or person behaves badly, especially because they expect to get everything that they want: |
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Liberty |
the freedom to live as you wish or go where you want |
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Fiasco |
a complete failure |
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Alms |
clothing, food, or money that is given to poor people |
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Caveat |
a warning to consider something before doing anything more: |
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Breach |
to break a law, promise, agreement, or relationship: |
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Vigil |
1.a period of staying awake to be with someone who is ill 2. or to call public attention to something: |
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Onus |
the responsibility or duty to do something |
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Beef |
1. To complain 2.beef sth up: to make something stronger or more important: |
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Lateral |
1. relating to the sides of an object or plant or to sideways move 2. at the same level in an organization or between two different organizations: |
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Prompt |
1. to help someone, especially an actor, to remember what they were going to say or do:Ex: I forgot my line and had to be prompted. 2. (of an action) done quickly and without delay, or (of a person) acting quickly or arriving at the arranged time: |
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Deterioration |
the fact or process of becoming worse |
