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All Quiet on the Western Front definitions
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10th Grade
01/20/2011

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Abyss
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Bottomless Hole, a vast expanse or depth.
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Acrid
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Caustic, bitter, harsh (relates sometimes to taste and smell).
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Affable
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Friendly, Courteous, amiable.
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Allure
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to influence, sway, or entice with some tempting appeal.
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Angular
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Lean; sharp cornered; gaunt.
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Apathy
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A lack of concern or feeling, indifference.
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Ascend
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To move upward, to rise from a lower station.
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Authoritative
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Coming from the proper authority; dictatorial; conclusive.
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Automaton
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A creature acting in a mechanical way with no indication of intelligence.
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Banal
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Common, Ordinary, Lacking freshness, hackneyed.
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baseness
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The quality of lacking higher values.
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Bequeath
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To hand down, to give or to leave in a will.
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Blanch
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To take the color out of, to bleach to make white.
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Camouflage
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A concealment by the means of disguise.
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Claustrophobia
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Fear of enclosed places.
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Cloister
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To seclude or to confine.
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Conceit
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Excessively high opinion of one's own worth or ability.
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Confound
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To cause one to become confused.
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Congeal
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To solidify or to coagulate.
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Contempt
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Scorn, extreme dislike or disdain.
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