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AP Vocab. Week 24
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English
12th Grade
05/03/2012

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Adroit
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1.       expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body. Cleverly skillful, resourceful, or ingenious

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Allocation
Definition

    the act of setting apart for a special purpose. 

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Ascetic
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a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.

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Beguile
Definition
to influence by trickery, flatterly, etc.; mislead; delude
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Enjoin
Definition
to prescribe (a course of action) with authority or emphasis
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Envoy
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   a diplomatic agent

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Ideology
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    the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc. that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class or large group

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Interloper
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1.a person who interferes or meddles in the affairs of others

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Kowtow
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1.       to act in an obsequious manner; show servile deference.

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Vicarious
Definition

performed, exercised received, or suffered in place of another

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