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Coval Vocabulary 5
Week 5
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English
12th Grade
03/11/2009

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Implore
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to beg earnestly
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Repentance
Definition
remorse for past sin
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Recompense
Definition
to pay for or return in kind
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Harbinger
Definition
someone/thing that comes before and tells of what is to come
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Missives
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letters or messages
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Chastise
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to restrain, to punish or scold
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Impede
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to interfere with the movement, progress, or developement of something or somebody
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Metaphysical
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relating to a reality beyond the senses, without material form, extremely abstract
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Scarce
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insufficient for the needs or demands
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Dire
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dreadful, awful
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Compunction
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anxiety arising from awareness of guilt
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Beguile
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to deceive
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Surcease
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to come to an end
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Undaunted
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fearless, not discourage
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Blank verse
Definition
verse consisting of unrhymed lindes, usually of iambic pentameter: but soft/ what light/ through yon/der win/dow breaks
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Multitudinous
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very numerous
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Incarnadine
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the color of blood
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Equivocator
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one who speaks in a deceiving way
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Sacrilegious
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lacking respect for something
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Scruples
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ethical objections
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Divulge
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to make known
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Pretense
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a claim made or implied
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Predominance
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the quality of having power, greater or greatest importance, or influence
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