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Inherit the Wind Vocab
Inherit the Wind Vocab
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English
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12/15/2004

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Bailiff
Definition
A court attendant entrusted with duties such as the maintenance of order in a courtroom during a trial
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Extradite
Definition
To give up or deliver (a fugitive, for example) to the legal jurisdiction of another government or authority
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Saunters
Definition
To walk at a leisurely pace; stroll
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Caricatured
Definition
To represent or imitate in an exaggerated, distorted manner
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Rubes
Definition
An unsophisticated country person
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Augmented
Definition
To make (something already developed or well under way) greater, as in size, extent, or quantity
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Patriarch
Definition
A man who rules a family, clan, or tribe
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Linotypes
Definition
used for a keyboard-operated typesetting machine that uses circulating matrices and produces each line of type in the form of a solid metal slug
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Ominous
Definition
Of or being an omen, especially an evil one
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Petulant
Definition
Contemptuous in speech or behavior
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Galluses
Definition
Suspenders for trousers
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Parish
Definition
members of such a parish; a religious community attending one church
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Effrontery
Definition
Brazen boldness; presumptuousness
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Perfunctorily
Definition
with indifference; showing little interest or care
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Imbecilities
Definition
Great stupidity or foolishness
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Guffaws
Definition
A hearty, boisterous burst of laughter
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Demeanor
Definition
The way in which a person behaves; deportment
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Grandiose
Definition
Characterized by feigned or affected grandeur; pompous
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Agnostic
Definition
One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God
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Oratory
Definition
Public speaking marked by the use of overblown rhetoric
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Unassailable
Definition
Impossible to dispute or disprove; undeniable
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Lumbering
Definition
Something useless or cumbersome
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Distraught
Definition
Deeply agitated, as from emotional conflict
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Meditative
Definition
Characterized by or prone to meditation
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Ponderously
Definition
Lacking grace or fluency; labored and dull
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Cavalcade
Definition
A succession or series
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Incredulous
Definition
Expressive of disbelief
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Backwash
Definition
A result of an event; an aftermath
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Brandishes
Definition
To display ostentatiously
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Innocuously
Definition
no adverse effect; harmless
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