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lesson 7
todd williams
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English
12th Grade
01/19/2016

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Term

Abjure 

verb

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Definition

To renounce or give up formally

 

To abjure is to surrender.

Term

Amorphous

Adjective

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Definition

Without a definite shape.

 

Jello is one very amorphous object.

Term

Animus

noun

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Definition

1. An attitude or spirit within a person that strongly.

2. Deep seated ill willed,.

 

Everyone has there own animus.

Term

Dichotomy

noun 

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Definition

Divison into two distinct parts or groups.

 

A dichotomy is two seperate sides.

Term

Exemplar

noun

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Definition

An example or model.

 

An exemplar is a prototype

Term

Herculean

adjective

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Definition

Of extrodinary size.

 

Hercules is a herculean.

 

 

 

Term

Inchoate

Adjective

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Definition

Not fully formed.

 

Tadpoles are frogs in an ichoate stage of development.

 

Term

Invidous

Adjective 

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Definition

Likely to cause resentment or animosity.

 

There is indivousness in racial things.

Term

Melnage

noun

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Definition

A mixture of disfamilar materials.

 

Melange is static from a tv.

Term

Nefarious

adjective

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Definition

Very wicked.

 

nefarious is something that is strange.

Term

Nihilism

Noun

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Definition

A viewpoint that denies any meaning of life.

 

Nihlism is a word that has no meaning.

Term

Ratify

Verb

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Definition

To aprove or confirm.

 

The teacher ratify my bathroom request.

Term

Subsume

Verb

 

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Definition

to encompass in larger things.

 

To subsume in a group.

Term

Variegated

Adjective

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Definition

Varied as to form.

 

The variegated plant had leaves 

Term

Vituate

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Definition

to impair 

 

TO impair this word.

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