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Cannery Row Vocab 2
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11th Grade
04/21/2009

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erudite
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having or showing great knowledge
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esthetic
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beautiful or pleasing in appearance
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sacrilegious
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disrespectful toward something considered holy or sacred
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imperceptibly
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very sligthly or gradually
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corrugated
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folded into parallel lines or ridges
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stipulated
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made a specific demand for something
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judiciously
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done with wisdom
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coagulating
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thickening into a soft, semi-solid mass
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resign
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to come to terms with something and accept it reluctantly
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schisms
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divisions within a group into arguing fractions
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swarthy
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having a dark and often weather-beaten complexion
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morose
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having a withdrawn and gloomy personality
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spurious
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different from what it is claimed to be
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penance
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self-punishment or an act of religious devotion showing your sorrow for commiting a sin
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maliciously
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with deliberate desire to cause harm or pain
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ostracize
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to banish or exclude somebody from society or a particular group
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concomitants
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things that happen or at the same time as somehing else
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articulations
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the coherent expressions of thoughts, ideas, or feelings
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despondency
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the state of being extremely unhappy or disappointed
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benignant
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kind in gracious in behavoir and apprearance
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inevitability
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something that cannot be avoided
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mollified
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calmed or soothed
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propriety
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socially correct behavior
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deluge
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sudden vast quantity
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progeny
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offspring
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