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Cormier 12
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12th Grade
03/25/2009

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Term
elan
Definition
  1. Enthusiastic vigor and liveliness
  2. He expressed great elan in while he danced
Term
expatriate
Definition
1. to banish (a person) from his or her native country
Term
facile
Definition
moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: facile fingers; a facile mind.
2.

easily done, performed, used, etc.: a facile victory; a facile method.

He finished his paper quickley with his facile thoughts 

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Feckless

Definition
  ineffective; incompetent; futile: feckless attempts to repair the plumbing.
2.

having no sense of responsibility; indifferent; lazy.

 

His feckless atempt to do his part of the project caused the whole group to get a low grade

Term
Fez
Definition
A man's felt cap in the shape of a flat-topped cone, usually red with a black tassel hanging from the crown, worn chiefly in the eastern Mediterranean region.

The clown rode around in the tiny var with his red fez with a tassel

 

 

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disseminate
Definition

to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.

 

 The news of the wuickley disseminated throught the school

Term
morose
Definition
1. gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
2. characterized by or expressing gloom.

 

His morose attitude was caused byhis vad test scores

Term
fiasco
Definition


1. disaster, catastrophe, debacle, flop, bomb.

 

The party turned out to be a fiasco whe the police showed up

Term
fissionable
Definition
The act of splitting nuclear atoms is called fission
Term
founder
Definition

a person who founds or establishes

The founder of facebook made billions of dollars after creating this alternate way of commmunication

Term
gyre
Definition

ring like coil

The snake was positioned in a gyrelike pose

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Hermeneutics
Definition
Hermeneutics the science of interpretation, esp. of the Scriptures.
2. the branch of theology that deals with the principles of Biblical exegesis.
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obsequious
Definition

  characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
2. servilely compliant or deferential: obsequious servants.
3.

obedient; dutifuful

 

His obseqiuious disposition made it easy for his sisters to get him to do things to get him trouble

 

   
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Term
hermeneutics
Definition
Hermeneutics the science of interpretation, esp. of the Scriptures.
2. the branch of theology that deals with the principles of Biblical exegesis.
Term
obsequious
Definition

servile

His obbsequious disposition made it easy for his sisters to get him in trouble for doing things they told him to do

Term
inhibition
Definition
During the the prohibition the drinking of alcohol was inhibited
Term
inscrutiable
Definition
adjective
1.

incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.

 

HE was inscrutinable because they had no evidence against him.

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vindictive
Definition

disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful: a vindictive person.

 

His vindictive

Term
insolvency
Definition

the condition of being insolvent; bankruptcy.

 

He found out he was insolvent when all his checks bounced


 

Term
destitute
Definition

without means of subsistence; lacking food, clothing, and shelter.

 

They were destitute as the mother searched got fired from her job

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