Vocabulary Flashcards

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Tumbrils

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A cart used to convey condemned prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution

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Retinue

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A group of advisers, assistants, or others accompanying an important person

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Unfathomable

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Incapable of being fully explored or understood

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Inexorable

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Impossible to persuade; impossible to stop

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Pecuniary

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Relating to money

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Humility

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A modest or low view of one's own importance; humbleness

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Extemporized

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Compose or perform without preparation

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Aphorism

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A pithy (concise) observation that contains a general truth

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Deprecatory

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Expressing disapproval; disapproving

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Imputation

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A charge or claim that someone has done something undesirable