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Lesson 5
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English
10th Grade
04/23/2007

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acrimonious
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caustic, rude, harsh
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ameliorate
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to make better, to relive, to improve
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amenable
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open to or willing to follow advice or suggestion tractable, malleable
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amorphous
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shapless, having to definate form
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bouyant
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capable of floating; cheerful
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cajole
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To pursuade with deliberate flattery, to coax, to wheedle
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calamity
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A serious event causing distress or misfourtune
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debase
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to reduce in dignaty or quality
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efface
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to erace to wear away
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elucidate
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to make clear to explain
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ephemral
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lasting a short periode of time fleeting
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ferocity
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savagery
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flourish
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to thrive to grow well
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houghty
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arrogant, exessivly proud vain
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impervious
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incapable of being enteredor penetrated, not capably of being damaged
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inane
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lacking significance, meaning, or point; insipide
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indolence
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laziness
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infallible
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incapable or error
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inscrutable
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difficult to understand, mysterious
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languid
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slow, slugguish, listless, weak
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malice
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desire to harm others
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oblique
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slanting, indirect, evasive, devious, misleading
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oblique
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slanting, indirect, evasive, devious, misleading
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opulance
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wealth, affluence, abundance,
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penitent
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showing or feeling regret, repentant
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perfunctory
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acting routinely with little interest or care
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