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English 10 Final Exam Vocab.
51 Words from " A Tale of Two Cities"
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10th Grade
05/29/2006
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incredulity
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improbability; disbelief
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Potentate
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Powerful Person; Ruler; Monarch
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Despoiled
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Deprived of something by force; robbed
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Tremulous
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Trembling; Fearful; Timid
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Inexorable
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Inflexible; Unrelenting; Resolute
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Inscrutable
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Mysterious
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Lamentation
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Complaint; show of grief
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Sonorous
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full, deep, rich
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Piscatory
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Having to do with fish/ fishing
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Stolid
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Impassive, showing no emotion
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Funereal
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Gloomy
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Pecuniary
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Involving a money penalty or fine
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Discomposed
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Agitated
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Entreat
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to plead, to beg
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Disconcerted
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Agitated
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Squalid
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Foul, Unclean
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Countenance
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facial features
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Vestige
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A trace, a mark
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Expostulations
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Earnest protest
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Admonitory
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Warning; rebuking
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Sagacity
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Wisdom
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Incommodious
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Uncomfortable; Troublesome
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Eminence
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Superiority
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Deprecated
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having expresed disapproval
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Deference
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Courteous regard or respect
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Infamous
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Notorious
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Pernicious
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Causing injury; fatal
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Timorous
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timid
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Commiseration
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Pity;compassion
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Languishing
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losing vigor or vitality
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Imputation
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Charge of fault or crime
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Compunction
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Feeling of regret
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Emulative
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desire to equal or surpass
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Destitute
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Lacking necessities of life
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Manifest
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Apparent to the senses; to make clear
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Abject
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lowly; miserable
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Propitiate
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To appease or pacify
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Obsequiousness
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Overdone submissiveness
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Ominous
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Threatening
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Imperturable
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Unable to be disturbed or excited
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Impenitently
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Done without regret
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trenchant
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forceful
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Incorrigible
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not able to be corrected; without hope
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Ostentatious
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Showy
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Remonstarnce
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Protest
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Profligates
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Wasteful person
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Ruminated
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Meditated, reflected
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Corroboration
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Confirmation by further evidence
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Efficacy
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Effectiveness
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Ubiquitous
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Seeming to be present everywhere
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Recompense
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to repay
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Repast
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A meal
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