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Final Exam Vocabulary
Mrs. Dawson's 2011 Vocab for Final Exam
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English
9th Grade
05/27/2011
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blandishment
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allurement; enticement
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archetype
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an inherited idea of a person or something
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plaudit
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applause
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prelapsarian
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before the fall of man
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sardonic
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bitterly sarcastic
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halcyon
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calm; peaceful
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doleful
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causing grief or sadness
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alacrity
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cheerful willingness; liveliness
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supercilious
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cooly and patronizingly haughty
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declivity
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downward slope
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chagrin
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embarrassment; mortification
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turgid
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excessively ornate or complex in style or language;

swollen or distended
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squalor
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filth
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obsolescent
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going out of use
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precipitous
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hasty; rash

steep
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salubrious
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healthful
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apogee
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highest point
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ineluctable
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inevitable
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pungent
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intense odor
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Blithe
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joyous; merry
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propinquity
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kinship

nearness of place
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stripling
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lad
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nadir
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lowest point
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intimate
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marked by close association or relation
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jocund
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merry; cheerful
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travesty
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mocking imitation of something
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paragon
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model of excellence
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ulterior
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more distant
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grandee
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nobleman of high rank; person of eminence
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noisome
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not good smelling
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fulsome
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offensive because of excessive display or obvious insincerity
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hoary
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old and withered
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benighted
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overtaken by darkness of night; intellectually or morally ignorant
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consummate
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perfect; superb
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elegiac
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pertaining to mourning and sorrow in a poem
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juxtapose
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put side-by-side
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fester
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rankle; rot; form pus

 
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sanguine
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relating to blood
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unguent
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salve; ointment
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nepotism
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showing favor to those who are akin
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calumnious
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slanderous
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peccadillo
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slight offense
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encomium
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speech of high praise; eulogy
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obsequious
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subservient; fawning
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sully
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tarnish; defile
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excoriate
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to censure
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plumb
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to fathom; to ascertain the depth of
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truckle
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to fawn; to act in a subservient manner
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attenuate
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to make thinner
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expurgate
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to purify
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corroborate
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to support with evidence
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jettison
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to throw cargo overboard to lighten a ship or plane
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contiguous
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touching; adjoined
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renegade
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traitor; deserter
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offal
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trash; waste
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sycophant
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truckler; parasitic flatterer
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picaro
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wanderer; rogue
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maudlin
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weakly sentimental and tearful
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flotsam
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wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on the sea
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callow
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young and inexperienced
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