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Day 17
pearlgates vocab.
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English
10th Grade
07/10/2011

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artifice
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deception, trickery
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abase
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to lower, to humiliate
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abash
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to embarrass
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asinine
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stupid
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accrete
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to grow by being added to 융합하다, 함께 커지다
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accrue
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to accumulate 이익이생기다
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asperity
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sharpness
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acquiesce
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to agree or accept
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aggregate
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to collect; to gather together
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aggrieve
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to treat unjustly
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aghast
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feeling great horror 경악한,겁에질린
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asylum
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place of refuge or shelter; protection
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atlas
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a book of maps
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anecdote
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a short, entertaining story
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anguish
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great suffering; agony
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atrocity
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brutal, shocking deed 잔혹한 행위
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arbitrary
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biased; whimsical
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arbitrate
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to decide or to settle
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arcane
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mysterious; known to only a few
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augury
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omen; prophecy 전조,조짐
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attribute
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to think of as produced by; to assign 결과로 보다
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attrition
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gradual wearing or weakening
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audacity
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boldness; impertinence 뻔뻔함
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autopsy
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examination of a dead body; 부검
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beget
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to cause or produce; engender
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begrudge
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to envy; resent 시기하다
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beguile
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to trick; to deceive
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belabor
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to spend too much time and effort on; to scold
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avalanche
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a great mass of falling snow and ice; 눈사태
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aver
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to assert confidently; to confirm
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boor
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a rude or impolite person
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brash
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offensively bold; rude
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cardinal
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principal; chief
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carp
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to complain or find fault in a nagging way
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castigate
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to criticize severely; to punish
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cataclysm
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any great upheaval that causes sudden and violent changes 대재앙
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coerce
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to force someone to do sth
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cogent
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forceful and to the point; convincing
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cognizant
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perceptive; aware
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awry
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crooked, wrong
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condemn
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to disapprove of strongly; censure
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azure
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sky blue
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condescend
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to lower oneself to an inferior's level; patronize
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condole
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to express sympathy; commiserate
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contingent
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accidental; that may or may not happen
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contrite
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deeply apologetic; remorseful; penitent
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contrive
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to think up; to construct ingenuously; to fabricate
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bacchanalian
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drunken
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curmudgeon
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an ill mannered, bad-tempered person
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cursory
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performed rapidly with little attention to detail 대충하는
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badger
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to pester, to repeatedly ask sb to do sth; 조르다
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cynic
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one who deeply distrusts human nature
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deluge
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flood
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balk
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to refuse to go on, to thwart; 망설이다, 방해하다
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demeanor
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outward behavior; conduct 처신, 품행
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balmy
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warm and pleasant
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bandy
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to discuss lightly, to arge with 언쟁하다
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detrimental
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harmful
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devoid
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empty; completely without
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devotion
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loyalty; piety
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disgruntle
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to make discontented 기분상하게하다
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disheveled
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disarranged and untidy; rumpled 단정하지않은
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disingenuous
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insincere; calculating
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disinterested
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unbiased; impartial; not prejudiced
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drone
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to talk on and on in a dull, monotonous way 웅웅거리는 소리를 내다
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dubious
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doubtful; uncertain; questionable
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duplicitous
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marked by deception or dishonesty; deceitful
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bantering
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good natured ridiculing 정감어린
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emollient
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softening; soothing
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empathetic
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having a deep understanding of the feelings of another person
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bastion
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fortress, defense 요새
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emulate
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to try to equal or surpass, often by imitating; to imitate 모방하다
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eradicate
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to exterminate; to destroy
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erratic
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unpredictable; inconsistent; random; eccentric
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begrudge
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to resent 시기하다, 못마땅해하다
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erudite
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scholory; deeply learned
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exoteric
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not limited to a select few; public 대중적인
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betray
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to revel unconsciously 배신하다
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expedient
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advantageous, convenient
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expedite
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to speed up or make easy; hasten facilitate
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berate
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to scold strongly
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fetter
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a shackle or chain; to confine, to restrain
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fickle
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capricious; whimsical; unpredictable
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fictitious
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imaginary; false; pretended; not genuine
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fractious
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hard to manage; unruly; rebellious
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bilious
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irritable and rather disgusting
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bilk
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to swindle, to cheat
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frenetic
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frantic; frenzied; wild
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grovel
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to lower oneself to please another
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guile
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craftiness; deceit; trickery
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blanch
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to bleach, to whiten
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blurt
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to utter impulsively 불쑥내밀다
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bode
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to foreshadow, to portent 징조가되다
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hypocritical
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pretending to have feelings or beliefs one does not have; insincere 위선의
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hypothetical
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uncertain; unproven
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iconoclast
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one who attacks popular beliefs or institutions 인습 타파주의자
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bogus
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counterfeit, not authentic 가짜의
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bohemian
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unconventional
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bovine
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cowlike; dull 우둔한
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importune
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to make urgent requests or demands; to ask or urge persistently
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