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Final Review Words
Spring final
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English
11th Grade
06/16/2015

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Heresy
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any belief that is strongly opposed to established beliefs
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Catharsis
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purification that brings emotional relief of renewal
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Benefactor
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one who provides help, especially in the form of a gift or donation
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Deride
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to ridicule; to laugh at contemptuously
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Credulous
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eager to believe; gullible
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Apotheosis
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elevation to divine status; the perfect example of something
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Contingent
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dependent; possible
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Incense
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to make very angry
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Affable
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easy to talk to; friendly
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Incipient
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beginning; emerging
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Contrived
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artificial; labored
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Benign
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gentle; not harmful; kind; mild
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Incessant
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unceasing
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Cryptic
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mysterious; mystifying
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Duplicity
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the act of being two-faced; double-dealing; deception
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Desiccate
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to dry out
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Aloof
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uninvolved; standing off; keeping one's distance
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Accost
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to approach and speak to someone aggressively
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Glut
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surplus; an overabundance
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Despondent
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extremely depressed; full of despair
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Doctrinaire
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inflexibly committed to a doctrine or theory without regard to its practicality; dogmatic
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Indolent
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lazy
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Austere
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unadorned; stern; forbidding; without excess
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Admonish
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to scold gently; to warn
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Furtive
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secretive; sly
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Denizen
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inhabitant
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Brevity
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briefness
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Chimera
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an illusion; a foolish fancy
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Eminent
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well-known and respected; standing out from all others in quality or accomplishment; outstanding
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Decorous
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proper; in good taste; orderly
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Burgeon
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to expand; to flourish
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Abash
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to make ashamed; to embarrass
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Artifice
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a clever trick; cunning
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Acrid
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harshly pungent; bitter
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Fortuitous
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accidental; occurring by chance
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Forsake
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to abandon; to renounce; to relinquish
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Aptitude
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capacity for learning; natural ability
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Curosry
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hasty; superficial
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Chagrin
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humiliation; embarrassed, disappointment
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Discern
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to have insight; to see things clearly; to discriminate; to differentiate
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Fecund
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Fertile; productive
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Capricious
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unpredictable; likely to change at any moment
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Caricature
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a portrait or description that is purposely distorted or exaggerated, often to prove some point about its subject
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Egregious
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extremely bad; flagrant
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Cognizant
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aware; conscious
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Archetype
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an original model/pattern
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Fidelity
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faithfulness; loyalty
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Inherent
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part of the essential nature of something; intrinsic
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Complicity
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a participation in wrongdoing; the act of being an accomplice
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Adroit
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skillful; dexterous; clever; shrewd; socially at ease
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Alleviate
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to relieve, usually temporarily or incompletely; to make bearable; to lessen
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Insatiable
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hard or impossible to satisfy; greedy; avaricious
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Epitome
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a brief summary that captures the meaning of the whole; the perfect example of something; a paradigm
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Consummate
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perfect; complete; supremely skillful
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Choleric
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hot-tempered; quick to anger
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Belligerent
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combative; quarrelsome; waging war
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Banal
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unoriginal; ordinary
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Cajole
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to persuade someone to do something he/she doesn't want to do
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Definitive
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conclusive; providing the last word
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Histrionic
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overly dramatic; theatrical
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Ethereal
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heavenly; as light and insubstantial as a gas or ether
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Astute
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shrewd; keen in judgment
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Edify
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to enlighten; to instruct; especially in moral or religious matters
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Infinitesimal
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very, very, very small; infinitely small
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Homily
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a sermon
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Dissipate
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to thin out, drift away, or dissolve; to cause to thin out, drift away, or dissolve; to waste or squander
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Complement
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to complete or fill up; to be the perfect counter part
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Conjure
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to summon or bring into being as if by magic
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Husbandry
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thrifty management of resources; livestock farming
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Abortive
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unsuccessful
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Abridge
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to shorten; to condense
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Consecrate
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to make or declare sacred
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Belabor
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to go over repeatedly or to an absurd extent
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Hyperbole
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an exaggeration used as a figure of speech; exaggeration
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Extrapolate
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to project or deduce from something known; to infer
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Hackneyed
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overused; trite; stale
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Exalt
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to raise high; to glorify
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Diffident
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timid; lacking in self-confidence
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Beleaguer
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to surround; to besiege; to harass
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Amiable
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friendly; agreeable
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Absolve
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to forgive or free from blame; to free form sin; to free from an obligation
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Digress
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to stray from the main subject
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Conciliatory
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making peace; attempting to resolve a dispute through goodwill
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Innocuous
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harmless; banal
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Discrete
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unconnected; separate; distinct
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Amorphous
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shapeless; without a regular or stable shape; blob like
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Autocratic
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ruling with absolute authority; extremely bossy
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Domestic
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having to do with the household or family; not foreign
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Idyllic
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charming in a rustic way; naturally peaceful
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Aberration
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something not typical; a deviation from the standard
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Bereaved
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deprived or left desolate, especially through death
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Compelling
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forceful; causing to yield
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Despot
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an absolute ruler; an autocrat
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Espouse
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to support; to advocate
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Grandiloquent
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pompous; using a lot of big, fancy words in an attempt to sound impressive
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Incisive
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cutting right to the heart of the matter
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Arbitrary
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random; capricious
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Effusion
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a pouring forth
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Esoteric
Definition
hard to understand; understood by only a select few; peculiar
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