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Call of the Wild V-VI
Eads Class
8
English
8th Grade
01/15/2010

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callowness

The teacher's callowness allowed the students to take advantage of her.

Definition
immature and lacking the experience of life that comes with adulthood.
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apprehensively

The student went to his new school apprehensively.

Definition
fearful worried that something bad will happen
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imploringly

The lifeguard imploringly asked the kids to stop running around the pool.

Definition
Begging, earnestly, asking for something
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repugnance

Mercedes looked at them, untold repugnance at sight of pain written in her pretty pace.

Definition
a very strong feeling of disgust about something
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formidable

 

Definition
difficult to deal with or overcome
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voracious
Definition
extremely large, very big
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copious
Definition
abundant, a lot of something
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importuned
Definition
to bother somebody insistently, repeatidly
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