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Fiske Chapters 7-9
Leake AP Language and Composition
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English
11th Grade
09/28/2009

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indigenous
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People or things that are native to a region.
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interloper
Definition
intrude where they aren't wanted
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extraneous
Definition
coming from the outside, irrelevant or unimportant
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inherent
Definition
stuck into
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germane
Definition
relevant, suitable, closely connected
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pariah
Definition
a social outcast
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endemic
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native or common to or peculiar to a specific region
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intrinsic
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synonym for inherent
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ostracize
Definition
expelling a person from a community either literally or figuratively
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tangential
Definition
slightly touching, barely connected
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ominous
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describes the threatening, the menacing
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portentous
Definition
describes something carrying a sign, a portent, of the threats of the future
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inauspicious
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describes something about to occur
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impending
Definition
refers to something threatening or not "hangs"
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minatory
Definition
threatening
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presage
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a forewarning
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bode; forebode
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bode: refers to an omen
forebode: repeats or intensifies that
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propitiate
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actions to appease or calm forces that might oppose a favorable outcome
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harbinger
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a forerunner, an early warning or messenger of what's to come
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imminent
Definition
describes something about to occur, positive or negative
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squander
Definition
expresses the idea of wasting
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dissipation
Definition
a literal scattering or dispersing, a specialized sense of scattering one's energy through immoderate pursuit of trivial pleasures (gambling, dringing, etc.)
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disenfranchise
Definition
lose the right to vote
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forfeiture
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expresses the idea of a penalty, giving up of something in one's possession
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denude
Definition
trees that lose their leaves or loss of other vegetation
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privation
Definition
deprive; deprived of basic necessities or comforts
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divest
Definition
getting rid of, to undress
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renounce
Definition
give it up, formal
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elegiac
Definition
describes a feeling of sadness at many types of losses
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bereave
Definition
to leave desolate, usually by death, surviving relatives or close friends of a person who has died.
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