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English
12th Grade
12/10/2009

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consigning
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giving freely, extravagant; plentiful
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virulent
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very poisonous or harmful; deadly; intensely bitter or spiteful
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strident
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having or making a harsh sound; shrill
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profuse
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to deliver; to deliver as goods to be sold; to send; to hand over; to assign to an undesirale place or position
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elocution
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the art of public speaking; a style or manner of public speaking or reading
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subversion
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the overthrowing or undermining of something established, such as a government
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cadaverous
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corpselike; pale and ghastly; thin and gaunt; haggard
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incorrigible
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a person who will not be reformed; incapable of being corrected or reformed; persistently bad
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promulgation
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to make known to the public, declare; to make widespread
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maimed
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to wound or injure seriously; to disable in some way; to mutilate; to cripple
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perfidious
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deliberately faithless; treacherous
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illicit
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forbidden by law; improper; unauthorized
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discrepancies
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an inconsistency; a contradiction; a difference
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inundated
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to cover by overflowing; to flood; to overwhelm (as if by a flood)
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sumptuous
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costly; magnificent; luxurious; lavish
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inscrutable
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mysterious or obsure; hard to grasp
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abeyance
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a temporary suspension of an activity; a state of being put aside for future action
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primordial
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from earliest times; primitive; original & fundamental
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homogeneous
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of the same kind or nature; composed of similar or identical parts of elements; uniform
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pervaded
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to extend all over; to spread or be diffused throughout
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