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Flashcards by Jairo Lobo, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Jairo Lobo
about 3 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| belligerence (n.) | revealing hostility and readiness to fight |
| cadence (n.) | the intonation of the voice; measured movement, such as in music and writing |
| clemency (n.) | mercy in the exercise of authority or power; leniency toward an offender or enemy |
| dirge (n.) | a funeral song or lament; any song or poem expressing mourning |
| frugality (n.) | the quality of being thrifty; not spending or using unnecessarily |
| hiatus (n.) | a break or interruption in something; a gap; a pause |
| penury (n.) | extreme poverty |
| perdition (n.) | condition of the soul lost in eternal punishment |
| plagiarism (n.) | the act of stealing and using ideas or writings of another as one's own |
| precursor (n.) | a person or thing that goes before and heralds the coming of another person or thing; one who precedes another in a course or office |
| sanction (n.) | authoritative permission for an action; penalty imposed to encourage compliance to law |
| trajectory (n.) | the direction of an object through space; a course taken |
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