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Group 5 scott
vocabulary for the high school student
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11/14/2005

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Capsize
Definition
v.

Overturn; upset
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Contend

Contendious
Definition
v. adj.

-1. Compare;vie;take part in a contest; fight; struggle

2. Argue; mantain as true; assert

-Quarrelsome; belligerent
Term
Decease
Definition
n.

Death; Demise
Term
Din
Definition
n.

Loud noise; uproar; clamor; racket
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Distinguish
Definition
v.

Tell apart; differentiate; reconize
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Divulge
Definition
v.

Make known; reveal; disclose
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Drought
Definition
n.

Long period of dry weather; laxck of rain; dryness
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Famish
Definition
v.

Starve; Suffer from extreme hunger; make extremely hungry
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Illuminate
Definition
v.

Light up; lighten; brighten
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Inaudible
Definition
adj.

incapable of being heard; not audible
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Incense
Definition
v.

Make extremely angry; enrage; madden; infuriate
Term
Inundate
Definition
v.

Flood; swamp; deluge
Term
Jeopardy

Jeopardize
Definition
n. v.

- Danger; peril

- endanger; imperil
Term
Magnify
Definition
v.

Cause to be or look larger; enlarge; amplify; exaggerate
Term
Municipal
Definition
adj.

Of a city or town
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Puncture
Definition
v.

Make a hole with a pointed object; pierce; perforate
Term
Rummage
Definition
v.

Search thoroughly by turning over all the contents; ransack
Term
Simultaneously
Definition
adv.

At the same time; concurrently; together
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Subsequently
Definition
adv.

Later; Afterward; next
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Survive
Definition
v.

Live longer than; outlive; outlast
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traverse
Definition
v.

pass across, over, or through; cross
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Velocity
Definition
n.

Speed; swiftness; celerity; rapidity
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