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LOTF Vocab 3
leviathan - frond
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English
12th Grade
10/16/2011

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leviathan
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(n) a large sea animal
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pliant
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(adj) easily influenced
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officious
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(adj) volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed
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tirade
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(n) a protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative, or harshly censorious language
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topple
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(verb) to fall from or as if from being top-heavy
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misinterpret
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(verb) to interpret, understand incorrectly
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strident
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(adj) characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound
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askew
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(adj/adv)out of line
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mimicry
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(n) the action, practice, or art of mimicking
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frond
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(n) a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions
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