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Alas Babylon 51-115
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9th Grade
02/06/2007

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Eddy
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A current of air or water moving contrary to the main current
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Effrontery
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Extreme boldness, audacity
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Emaciated
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very thin, wasting away
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Embed
Definition
To enclose firmly in some mass
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Equilibrium
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a state of balace between opposing forces
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Excise
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To remove by cutting
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Exhaust
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To use up; to drain
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Exotic
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Foreign, unfamiliar
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Fastidious
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Reflectinga meticulous or demanding attitude, critical to an extreme
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Fiasco
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A total failure and a mess
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Foliage
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Leaves of a plant,leafage
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Forbearance
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Patience, lenience
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Foreboding
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premonition of evil, an ominous omen
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Garnish
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To decorate
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Gaunt
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very thin, emaciated, angular
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Gracious
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marked by kindness, courtesy, and tact
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Gravity
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seriousness, importance
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Gregarious
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sociable and outgoing
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Hallmark
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a distinguishing characteristic or trait
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Harbor
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To give shelter or refuge
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Hearten
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to encourage
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Heralded
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announced or publicized
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Hone
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to sharpen, to make more intense, to make more effective
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Immutable
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Unchanging
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Implacable
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incapable of being appeased
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Improvidence
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Not providing for the future, not thrifty
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Incongruity
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nonconformity, disagreement, incompatibility
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Industrious
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Skillfully busy or occupied
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Inert
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Unable to move or act, sluggish
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Infamous
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having a rep. of the worst kind, vicious, notoriously bad
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Ingenuity
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Cleverness,inventivness, resourcefulness
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Insidious
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Treacherous or dangerous in a secret sort of way
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Insolence
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Insulting or contemptuous
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Interminable
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having or seeming to have no end
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introspective
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a quality of examining ones own mind or thoughts
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irascible
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irritable, easily angered, cranky, cross
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itinerant
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traveling from place to place
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Juncture
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a point of joining
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Lament
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to mourn or express sorrow in a demonsterative manner
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Languid
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Slow, Sluggish, Listless, Weak
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Largess
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Generous giving
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Lurid
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sensational, gruesome and causeing shock or horror
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maelstrom
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a turbulent whirlpool
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Malign
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to utter injuriously misleading reports about
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Malleable
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capable of being shaped, influenced, or altered, tracable
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Maxim
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a saying of proverbial nature
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Mellow
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Pleasingly mild
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Methodical
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Proceeding in a regular order
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Meticulous
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taking great care
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Mobile
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capable of moving or being moved
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Monolithic
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massive and rigidly fixed
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Moratorium
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a suspension of activity
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Mottled
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Marked with spots of different color
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Oblique
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slanting, indirect,misleading
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Oblivion
Definition
state of being forgotten
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Omnious
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Threatening
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Opaque
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not allowing the passage of light, hard to understand
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Orthodox
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conforming to established standards
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paradoxical
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something that appears false but is actually correct
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Parry
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to deflect or to ward off a blow
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Peripheral
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on the edge, not important
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Perpetuate
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to prolong the existance of something
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pillage
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to rob or to take away by force
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Placebo
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substance with no medication given or humor a patient
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