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Freak the Mighty, Chapters Six - Ten
Mrs. Darla Carroll's English 7 Class
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English
7th Grade
09/27/2011

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swilling
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drinking greedily or grossly
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strutting
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walking with head up high, chest out, expecting to impress others
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cretin
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a mentally defective person
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deficiency
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lack;incompleteness;insufficiency
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perspective
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viewpoint;visible scene;vista
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trajectory
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path of a body moving through space
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converging
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meeting at a point
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swaggering
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walking in a defiant manner
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nanosecond
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one billionth of a second
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evasive
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elusive;trying to avoid doing something
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confrontation
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face to face conflict
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albino
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a person with pale skin, very light hair, and pinkish eyes due to lack of pigmentation
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vegetate
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to do nothing;be unthinking
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archetype
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model or first form;prototype
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microsurgery
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delicate surgery performed under magnification
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artifact
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manmade object or tool, characteristic of an earlier time or cultural stage
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avarice
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greed
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sucrose
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sugar
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incision
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cut, especially in surgery
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divulged
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made known (something secret)
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bionic
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having particular physiological functions replaced by electronic components
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modification
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alteration;change in shape or form
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optimum
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most desirable;best
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dungarees
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blue jeans
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fealty
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loyalty
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retrieval
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recovery;reeling in
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grotty
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disgusting;dirty;"gross"
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damsel
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young woman of noble birth
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distress
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great pain or mental suffering
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microsecond
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one millionth of a second
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