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Heart of Darkness Vocabulary
Heart of Darkness Vocabulary
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English
12th Grade
10/16/2011
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Pilgrimage/Pilgrim
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a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons
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Reclaim
 Definition
retrieve or recover
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Rapacious
 Definition
aggressively greedy or grasping
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Flabby
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soft, loose, fleshy
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Stave
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a vertical wooden post or plank in a building or other structure
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Languor
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the state or feeling of tiredness or inertia
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Prodigy
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a person, esp. a young one, endowed with exceptional qualities or abilities
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Implacable
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relentless; unstoppable
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Inscrutable
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impossible to understand or interpret
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Recondite
 Definition
little known; abstruse
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