Vocab 8

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aberration

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a departure from what is proper, right, expected, or normal, a lapse from sound mental state

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ad hoc

Back 2

for this specific purpose, improvised, with respect to this

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bane

Back 3

the source or cause of fatal injury, death, destruction, or ruin, death or ruin itself, poison

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bathos

Back 4

the intrusion of commonplace or trite material into a context whose tone is lofty or elevated, grossly insincire or exagerated sentimentality, the lowest phase, nadir, an anticlimaxz, comedown

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cantankerous

Back 5

ill-tempered, quarrelsome, difficult to get along or deal with

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casuistry

Back 6

the determination of right and wrong in questions of conduct or conscience by the application of general ethical principles, specious argument

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de facto

Back 7

actually existing or in effect, although not legally required or sanctionsed, in reality, actually

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de jure, by right

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de facto

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depredation

Back 9

the act of preying upon or plundering

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empathy

Back 10

a sypathetic understanding of or identification with the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of someone or something else

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harbinger

Back 11

forerunner, herald, to herald the approach of

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hedonism

Back 12

the belief that the attainment of pleasure in life's chief aim, devotion to or pursuit of pleasure

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malcontent

Back 13

discontented with or in open defiance of prevailing conditions, such a person

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nepotism

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undue favoritism to or excessive patronage of one's relatives

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mellifluous

Back 15

flowing sweetly or smoothly, honeyed

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pander

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to cater to or provide satisfaction for the low tastes or vices of others, a person who does this

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peccadillo

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a minor sin or offense, a trifling fault or shortcoming

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piece do resistance

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the principle dish of a meal, the principal event, incident, or item, an outstanding accomplishment

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remand

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to send or order back, in law, to send to jail or to a lower court

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syndrome

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a group of symprtoms or signs that collectively characterize or indicate a disease, disorder, abnormality, etc