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8th Grade
09/11/2011
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Fallacy
 Definition
Falsehood
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Bucolic
 Definition
Pertaining to nature and the beauty/serenity of nature
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Erudite
 Definition
Scholarly or learned
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Penchant
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A liking or craving for something specific
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Soporific
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Something that induces sleep, boring
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Surreptitious
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Something done sneakily
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Sobriquet
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A nickname or something you are dubbed
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Paucity
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A shortage
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Acerbic
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Having a sharp wit, sarcastic
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Decorum
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A code of behavior
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Belabor
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When you emphasize a point more than once
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Tacit
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Unexpressed
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Bombastic
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Thinking that they are above everybody else
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Quail
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to retreat or withdraw
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Recalcitrant
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Excessively suborn
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Repast
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A meal
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Audacity
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Bold to the point of shocking
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Ubiquitous
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Seen everywhere
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Didactic
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Teaches too long and in a boring way
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Munificent
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The sport required to give a large sum of money
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Urbane
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Pertaining to cities, soficticated
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Magnanimous
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Big in the sense of moral behavior
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Adamant
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Unyielding
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Maxim
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Rule or proverb
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Laconic
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Brief, with few words
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Bellicose
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Rebellious, warlike
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Nomenclature
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Having to do with naming things
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Largess
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Large amours of money
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Inculcate
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To bring into a certain ideology
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Chastice
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To criticize
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