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English Vocab Novel and Stories
Semester Test
146
English
8th Grade
12/12/2011

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A fearful feeling about the future.
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Apprehension
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ability to sense or know immediatly without reasoning
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Intuition
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Fillid with anger at meanness or injustice
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Indignant
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In a secretive way, avoiding being noticed
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Stealthily
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without producing the desired result
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Ineffectually
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Unable to express oneself
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Inarticulate
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Noticeable
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Conspicuous
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Quick or changeable in behavior
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Mercurial
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Unashamed
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Unabashed
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Unbearable
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Insufferable
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Extremely careful about details
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Meticulous
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one who believes events are determined by fate.
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Fatalist
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In a showy way
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Ostentatiously
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A firm purpose, determined
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Resolute
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Doubted
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Mistrusted
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Sterile; Empty
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Barren
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Kindly
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Benign
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Unable or Unwilling to accept
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Intolerant
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Gave Up
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Renounced
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Boldly; disrespectful in speech or behavior
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Incredulously
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Fastened or made firm
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Riveted
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Put into words; expressed
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Couched
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grasping or attaching oneself to 
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Latching
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in proper order for being seen, met,etc., by others
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Presentable
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with doubt or disbelief
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Insolently
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mixed or combined
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Compounded
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put into
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infuse
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at the same time
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Simultaneously
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Tightly stretched
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Taut
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having to do with finances
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Fiscal
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Blessing
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Benediction
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a pharmacist
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Apothecary
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To ease or make less
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Assuaged
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a law or strong statement
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Dictum
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a restriction placed on the inheritance of a piece of land
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Entailment
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Wide spreading evergreen trees
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Live Oaks
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unusually silent; uncommunitive
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Taciturn
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a powder for body and face
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Talcum
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Argumentative; quarrelsome
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Contentious
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to deal with others in a proud or haughty way
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Condenscension
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very small; tiny; expressing smallness
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Diminutive
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unruly; rebellious; hard to manage
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fractious
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having a pleasant friendly disposition; good natured
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amiably
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good omen; favored by fortune; biding well for the future
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Auspicious
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elaborated with care
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wrought
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jurisdiction of a tyrant or absolute ruler
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tyranny
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a yellowish-green grape with a plum like flavor
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scuppernong
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being person
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entity
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hazy; vague
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nebulous
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dull
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vapid
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illegally
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illicitly
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persist
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persevere
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visit; stopover
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sojourn
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religious devotion
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piety
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scornful
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contemptuous
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in a very careful or cautious way
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gingerly
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favorable or bebeficial
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benign
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gruesome; grisly; horrible
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morbid
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undisturbed, calm, quiet
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placidly
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inclined to ask many questions; eager to learn
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inquisitive
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to come afterward; follow immediatly
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ensuing
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superior ability; skill
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prowess
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very harmful; very dangerous
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malignant
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to crush; subdue; put an end to
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quelled
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fortunate
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auspicious
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oppression
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tyranny
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a departure from what is right; true; correct; deviation from truth or moral rectitude
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abberation
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that which is next to or contagious
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adjacent
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to make certain
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ascertaining
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a deliberatly distorted picture of image of a person/thing
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caricature
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frank; open; candid; naive
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ingenuous
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to do or perform something evil; criminal; or offensive
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perpetrated
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something provokes; the cause of irritation or resentment; incitement
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provocation
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one of two or more persons born at different times of the same parents
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sibling
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done as a trial or experiment
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tentatively
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a watch kept; a purposeful staying awake; the eve of a festival
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vigil
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switching one child with another
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changelings
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a bundle; a bride's outfit of clothes; linens;jewlery; etc.
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trousseau
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joyful and triumphant; elated
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jubilant
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very severe or strict; serious; to continue with determination
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persevere
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any property; quality; or characteristic that can be ascribed to a person or thing
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attribute
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severe; harsh; rigid; stern
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austere
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void; empty; vacant;  not possessing
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deviod
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pertaining or relating to a church; organization of a church
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ecclesiastical
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the act of questioning; examination by questions
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interrogation
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a survey of a region for a purpose; obtaining military info
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reconaissance
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correctness of method or judgement; rightness or principal
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rectitude
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principal or fundamental element of something; the first of; a beginning point
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rudiments
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conquered; brought under control
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subdued
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acting or moving with great force; fervet; passionate; intense
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vehemently
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a temporary residence or visit; to dwell for a time
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sojourn
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uninteresting; lifeless; dull; tasteless; flavorless; unexciting
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vapid
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a being; an existence; a thing that exists in reality or in one's mind
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 entity
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cloudy; hazy
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nebulous
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bravery; valor; gallantry; superior ability or skill
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prowess
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hard to over come; awesome
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formidable
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a prior or exclusive right or priviledge; esp. to a rank or class
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prerogative
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indirectly; deviously
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obliquely
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rigid class distinction based on birth; wealth; etc.
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caste
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to escape; to evade; to escape detection by
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elusive
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to build; to establish; moral or spiritual instruction
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edification
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to call on; to summon
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invoke
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serving as an omen; threatening; sinister
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ominous
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an established law; rule; principal; or fact used to form a correct judgement
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criteria
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the state of or cause of continued pain or distress
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affliction
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to yeild as in an arguement; to admit as true; just; or proper
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conceded
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to make clear; to explain
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elucidate
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concise; succinct; to the point
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terse
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friendly; kindly; sweetness of temper
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amiably
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native born; growing; or produced naturally in a given country or region
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indigenous
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sharp; biter; sarcastic manner of speaking
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acrimonious
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any opinion; or belief one maintains
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tenet
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done or acting in a secret furtive manner
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stealthy
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not applicable or pertinent; not relating to the subject
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irrelevant
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expressing oneself clearly in syllables or words; lucid
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articulate
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to blot; wipe; or strike out; erase
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expunge
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unbaised; impartial
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candid

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shamelessly bold; disrespectful; insolent
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impudent
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careful about what one says or does; prudent
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discreet
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to strengthen; confirm; support
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corroborative
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to make formal accusation against on the basis of positive legal evidence
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indicted
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a very small quantity
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iota
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not expressed openly; but implied; unspoken; silent
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tacit
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inclined to question the sincerity and goodness of people's motives and actions
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cynical
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the belief that all events are determined by fate and are therefore inevitable
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fatalistic
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not easily seen; not clear; not understood; dim; dark; gloomy
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obscure
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turned or bent to one side; twisted or distorted
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wryly
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done acting in a stealthy manner; sly; shifty
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furtive
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unyielding; firm
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adament
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dirty; filthy; squalid ; depressingly wretched
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sordid
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foreboding; fear; dread
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apprehension
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the quality or fact being irrelevant; saucy; impudent; insolent
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impertinence
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filth wretchedness
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squalor
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any attractive; but superficial appearance or display
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veneer
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one who lives a secluded; solitary life
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recluse
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agreement; consent
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aquiescence
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capable; qualified
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competent
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to cooperate secretly; escpecially in wrongdoing; overlooked or pardoned
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connived
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in a quady; loud way
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garishly
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spells or charms
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incantations
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belonging to no definite class or type; hard to classify or describe
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nondescript
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acient; prehistoric
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primeval
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to steal; finch
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purloined
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persons of lower positions or power
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subordinates
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overflowing; swarming
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teeming
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