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Engligh Vocab 10/18/09
Vocabulary English 12
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12th Grade
10/18/2009

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Motley
Definition
mixed, varied diverse
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Audacity
Definition
recklessness, daring
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Unscathed
Definition
not hurt not able to be hurt
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Fatalism
Definition
resignation to a fate, belief in predetermined destiny
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Jocose
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cheerful, funny, playful
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Atrocious
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Extremely evil; cruel
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Voracious
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very hungry, greedy, devourer
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Languor
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mentally and physically calm
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Factitious
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Definition: unnatural
Synonyms: artificial, false, sham
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Apparition
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Definition: ghost
Synonyms: bogeyman, bump in the night, chimera, delusion, hallucination, haunt, illusion, phantasm, phantom, revenant, specter, spirit, spook, visitant
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fecund
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Definition: productive
Synonyms: breeding, fertile, fructiferous, fruitful, generating, pregnant, proliferant, prolific, propagating, reproducing, rich, spawning, teeming
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Tenebrous
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Definition: dark, ominous, gloomy
Synonyms: ambiguous, amphibological, caliginous, dim, dingy, dusk, dusky, equivocal, gloomy, lightless, murky, obscure, shadowy, shady, somber, sunless, uncertain, unclear, unexplicit, unilluminated, unintelligible, unlit, vague
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Deplorable
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Definition: unfortunate, shameful
Synonyms:
afflictive, awful, blameworthy, bummer, calamitous, dire, dirty, disastrous, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, distressing, dolorous, downer, dreadful, execrable, faulty, godawful, grievous, grim, heartbreaking, heartrending, horrifying, intolerable, lamentable, lousy, melancholy, miserable, mournful, opprobrious, overwhelming, pitiable, poor, regrettable, reprehensible, rotten, sad, scandalous, sickening, stinking, terrible, tragic, unbearable, unsatisfactory, woeful, wretched
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Precarious
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Definition: tricky, doubtful, lacking instability or security
Synonyms:
ambiguous, borderline, chancy, contingent, dangerous, delicate, dicey, dubious, dynamite, equivocal, hairy*, hanging by a thread, hazardous, iffy, impugnable, indecisive, insecure, loaded, on thin ice, open, out on a limb, perilous, problematic, risky, rocky, rugged*, sensitive, shaky, slippery, ticklish, touch and go, touchy, uncertain, unhealthy, unreliable, unsafe, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, unsure
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Odious
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Definition: hateful, horrible
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abhorrent, abominable, creepy*, detestable, disgusting, execrable, foul, hateable, horrid, loathsome, mean, obnoxious, offensive, ornery, pain in the neck, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, unpleasant, vile
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beguiled
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Definition: to mislead or distract attention
Synonyms:
betray, bluff, burn*, cheat, chisel, con, deceive, delude, double-cross, dupe, entice, exploit, finesse, flimflam, gyp, have, hoodwink*, impose on, jockey, juggle, lure, manipulate, mislead, play, play for a sucker, rook, rope in, scam, seduce, shave, snow*, stick*, string along, suck in, take, take in, trick
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Litany (N)
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Definition: prayer consisting of a series of petitions. recited by a leader alternating with fixed responses by the congregation

account, catalogue, enumeration, invocation, list, petition, prayer, recitation, refrain, repetition, supplication, tale
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obsequiously
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slavish
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noxious
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harmful inflicting damage
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craven
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Coward Cowardly
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Tepid
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Luke Warm lacking interest neutral trapped in the middle
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