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9th grade week of 3/4 Ms. Hayashi
week of 3/4/13
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9th Grade
03/04/2013

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Banish

-to expel from or relegate to a country or place by authoritative decree; condemn to exile:He was banished to Devil's Island.


-to compel to depart; send, drive, or put away: to banish sorrow.
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Initial

-of, pertaining to, or occurring at the beginning; first: the initial step in a process.

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via

-by a route that touches or passes through; by way of: to fly to Japan via the North Pole.


-by the agency or instrumentality of: a solution via an inquiry.
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Provident

-having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.

 
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Indifferent

-without interest or concern; not caring; apathetic: his indifferent attitude toward thesuffering of others.


-having no bias, prejudice, or preference; impartial; disinterested.
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Aspire

-to long, aim, or seek ambitiously; be eagerly desirous, especially for something great or ofhigh value (usually followed by to, after,  or an infinitive): to aspire after literary immortality;to aspire to be a doctor.

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Ensue

-to follow in order; come afterward, especially in immediate succession: As the days ensued,he recovered his strength.

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Conviction

-a fixed or firm belief: No clever argument, no persuasive fact or theory could make a dent in hisconviction in the rightness of his position.


-the act of convictinga declaration that a person is guilty of an offense.
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Emanate

-to flow out, issue, or proceed, as from a source or origin; come forth; originate.arise, spring, flow.

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Tenable

-capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against attack or dispute: a tenabletheory.

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Reverence

-a feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration.

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Collision

-the act of collidinga coming violently into contact; crash: the collision of two airplanes.

a clash; conflict: a collision of purposes.
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