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28 Cards in this Set
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Sound |
a bay; an inlet of water connecting to a sea |
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abortive |
fruitless; unsuccessful |
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fractiousness |
tendency to be troublesome |
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languidly |
Lacking force or quickness of movement; listlessly; sluggishly; lethargically |
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extemporizing |
Improvising; done spontaneously without a plan |
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peremptory |
Expressive of urgency or command; imperious; commanding; bossy |
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peremptorily |
Imperiously; commandingly |
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oculist |
ophthalmologist (eye doctor) |
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contiguous |
adjacent; connected to |
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proprietor |
owner (of a business) |
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proprietary |
characteristic of one who possesses or owns something |
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ectoplasm |
glowing substance believed to produce materialization of spirit |
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haughtily |
arrogantly |
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hauteur |
arrogance; haughtiness |
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(ch 2) innuendo |
hint; insinuation; subtle suggestion |
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torturously |
having repeated twists, bends, or turns |
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vinous |
relating to wine (vino in Italian) |
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subterfuges |
deceptions; stratagems; tricks |
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punctilious |
careful; precise; attentive to the finer points of etiquette (formal conduct/manners) |
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non-olfactory |
non-odorous; not having a scent |
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anteroom |
an outer room; foyer |
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somnambulatory |
related to sleepwalking |
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abstraction |
Preoccupied, as if lost in thought |
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denizen |
inhabitant; resident; one that frequents a place |
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disembodied |
to divest of a body, or corporeal (corpse) existence (pg 80- it means a face without a body) |
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rent asunder |
torn apart or torn into parts |
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bucks |
(offensive slang) a bigot's term for young black men |
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corporeal |
of or relating to or characteristic of the body; existing or manifesting in bodily form |
