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English
9th Grade
09/17/2010

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anguish
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sorrow
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distracted 
Definition
mentally confused
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adulation
Definition
excessive admiration
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aghast
Definition
struck with terror, amazement, or horror
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gamut
Definition
range
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compromise (n)
Definition
settlement of diffrences
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exorbitant
Definition

excessive

exceeding in quality, amount, or size

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prospect
Definition

possibility

something that is awaited or expected

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pauper
Definition
a very poor person
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ruinous
Definition
causing or tending to cause ruin
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askew
Definition

crooked

out of line

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garret
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attic

just under the roof

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prim 
Definition
stiffly formal and proper
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spruce (v), (adj)
Definition

to make oneself spruce (v)

neat or smart in apperance

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billow(V)
Definition
to rise or roll in waves or surges
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gleam
Definition
a brief or faint appearance 
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careen(v)
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to sway from side to side
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bedeck (v)
Definition
decorate
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sullen
Definition
gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed
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loll
Definition

lounge

  • to act or move in a lax,lazy, or indolent manner

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imminent
Definition
ready to take place
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infallible
Definition
incapable of error
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dogged
Definition

obstinate

marked by stubborn determination

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precarious
Definition
characterized by a lack of security or stability that threatens with danger.
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exotic
Definition

foreign

  • strikingly,excitingly or mysteriously different or unusual

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armada
Definition
a large force or group usually of moving things
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vermillion
Definition
a bright red pigment
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heresy
Definition

  • a dissent or deviation from a dominant theory, opinion , or practice
  • an opinion, doctrine, or practice contrary to the truth or to generally accepted beliefs or standards

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clove
Definition
a separation or split
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invalid
Definition
one that is sickly
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iridescent
Definition
a lustrous rainbow like play of color caused by differential refraction of light waves
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reiterate
Definition
to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect
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naught
Definition
nothingness
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romance (n)
Definition

a love story

  • something ( as an extravagant story or account) that lacks basis in fact

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snipe (v)
Definition

  • to shoot at exposed individuals (as of an enemy's forces) from a usually concealed point of vantage

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