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AP English Vocab
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10/09/2008

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Odious
Definition
Exciting hatered or repungance; abhorrent.
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opportune
Definition
occuring at a time that is fitting or advantageous
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apotheosis
Definition
To devine rank; defication; a glorified example. (means: turned insto god)
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Crucible
Definition
A seviere test or trial
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Educe
Definition
To draw or bring out; elicit; deduce
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Abattoir
Definition
A slaghter house
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Tenacity
Definition
Quality of being firm or persistant.
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Linchpin
Definition
Acential and coheisive
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Ergo
Definition
consiquently; therfore
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Trepidation
Definition
a state of alarm or dread; apprihension
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Parsimonious
Definition
stingy; ezcessivly frugal
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Circumspect
Definition
heaful or circumstances or consiquences; prudent
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Untenable
Definition
Not capable of being defended or maintained.
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Machiavellian
Definition
Suggestive of or characterized by the princaples of expedience
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Misnomer
Definition
a name worngly or usuitably applied to a person or object.
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Obsequious
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exsibiting service evidence; fawining
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Treatise
Definition
a formal accout in writing of a subject
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Sanctimonious
Definition
faining piety
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watershed
Definition
a crytical point that seves as a dividing line.
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antipathy
Definition
a strong feeling of hatred repundence or opposition.
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