Word Wealth Ww Part Ii 2 Unit 6 English Vocabulary

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abstain

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to refrain, keep oneself from

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abstemious

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to eat and drink sparingly or moderately

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fefrain

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to keep from actin or responding to a stimulus or a provocation

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forbear

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self-restraint growing out of patience, consideration, or tolerance

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desist

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to cease doing something

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alienate

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to make hostile or unfriendly, to estrange

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alienation

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estrangement from persons to whom one was once attached, or from anything of which one was once a part

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assess

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to estimate; to impose a tax, fine, payment

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appraise

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to set a price or value upon something

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assimilate

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to absorb, incorporate, make or become like or part of (that which incorporates it)

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cajole

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to coax or wheedle, persuade by flattery

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blandishments

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flatering remarks

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persiflage

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banter, raillery

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concede

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to admit, yield, grant

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concession

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a privilege granted to someone to sell something

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condescend

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to come down to another's level, deign

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patronizing

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a condescending way to show favor or kindness

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deprecate

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to disapprove, protest against

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imprecate

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to pray against or curse

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dissipate

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to dispel, waste, live dissolutely

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dissolute

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immoral, profligate, and wanton

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profligate

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given to vice

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elicit

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to draw forth (information)

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educe

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to draw or lead it forth

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extract

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to drag or pullsomething out, overcoming reluctance by insistence

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extort

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to use threats, force, or unusual pressure

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emaciate

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to make very lean

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exasperate

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to irritate thoroughly, infuriate

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asperity

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harshness or roughness of manner, weather sound, or materials

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acerbity

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sharper, more bitter than asperity, but also harshe, especially in temper and words

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exacerbate

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to make it sharp, sour, irritating, and thus to aggravate something

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aggravate

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make something worse

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altercation

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an angry dispute or quarrel

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dissension

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strong feeling against a regime, situation, or belief

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feud

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a little war which may go on for years and may range from recurring exchanges of insults between two persons

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fracas

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a noisy fight, quarrel, or brawl

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litigation

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the sometimes dramatic process of legal dispute

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dispute or disputation

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a verbal argument or quarrel

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imbroglio

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a confused entanglement or disagreement

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anguish

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intense suffering

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agony

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extreme torment, with undertones of struggle

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mortification and chargin

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suffering from embarrassment, shame, or humiliation

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ordeal

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a severe trial of one's courage, fortitude, endurance, or skill

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tribulation

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prolonged misery, distress, affliction, or sorrow

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purgatory

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a place of prolonged expiation and purification by which one qualifies for Paradise

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apparition

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specter or phantom, a sudden appearing

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phantom or phantasm

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an allusion only in mind

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specter

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something seen, a visible ghost or apparition, or any object of fear and dread

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aura

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a kind of vapor or mysterious atmosphere surrounding a person

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poltergeist

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a noisy, usually mischievous, ghost supposed to specialize in table rappings, furniture topplings, and other such happenings

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ectoplasm

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the luminous aura allegedly emanating from the body of a spiritist medium during a trance

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zombi(e)

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a corpse animated by a diabolic power, or just a person either chiling and terrible or dull and unnattractive

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banshee

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a female spirit wailing a warning of an imminent death in the family

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barrage

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a shower (of artillery fire), a heavy onslaught

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salvo

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a burst of fire from small arms or artillery, or a burst of cheers or applause

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fusillade

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the discharge of many firearms all at once or in rapid succession- or a figurative equivalent like an outburst of boos at a prize fight

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clairvoyant

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one who has unusual or preternatural insight

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preternatural

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beyond what is natural or normal

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duplicity

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double-dealing, deception

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facade

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the front, or face

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holocaust

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widespread destruction, especially by fire

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holograph

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something written wholly in the handwriting of the author

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conflagration

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a very large fire