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Mid-Term Exam:Vocabulary/Unit I
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English
10th Grade
01/15/2010

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Epiphany
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casually sudden perception of meaning or understanding
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Profane
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charactized by irreverence or comtempt of God or sacred principle or things ;irreligious
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Reprove
Definition
to criticize or correct to scold
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Sundry
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vaerious or diverse
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Relent
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to soften in feeling, temper or determination
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Toil
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hard and continous work;labor
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Virtue
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moral excellence or goodness;righteousness
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Requite
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to make repayment or return for services etc.
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Magnanimty
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benevolence
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Indigenous
Definition
native;orignating in and characteristics of a particular region or country
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Melancholy
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gloomy
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Copious
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large amount or number;plentiful
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Nominal
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being such in name only so called putative
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Omnipotent
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all powerful as God
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Ascribe
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to credit or assign,as to a accuse or source
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Abitrary
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based on whims or individual preferences , not decided byy rules or laws but by persons own opinion
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Abate
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lessen
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Arduous
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difficult
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Eradicate
Definition
to eliminate
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Ignominy

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deep personal humiliation adn disgrace.The women felt ignomity while walking through the crowd and being laughed at.

 

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inauspicious

Definition
not auspicious, not favorable
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Sagacity
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acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgment.
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anathema
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a person or thing detested or loathed: That subject is anathema to him.
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Paramour

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an illicit lover, esp. of a married person.
2. any lover.
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Uncongenial
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agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or character: congenial surroundings.
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contagion
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the communication of disease by direct or indirect contact.
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deportment
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deameanor, conduct, behavior
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pestilence
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a deadly or virulent epidemic disease ex. swine flu
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ethereal
Definition
light, airy, or tenuous: an ethereal world created through the poetic imagination.
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ominous
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portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds
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zenith
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the highest point
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engima
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mystery
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innate
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present from birth
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petulant
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impatient or irritable
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consecration
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set apart as holy
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transmuting
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change from one form,nature, etc. into another to connect or transform the type of ownership of property
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jocularity
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state or quality of being jocular(jokes)
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ludicrous
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causing laughter because of absurcity;provoking or deserving decision, ridiculous
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uncoth
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lacking refinement or cultivation
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repugance
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storng distaste,a version, or objection; antipathy
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audacity
Definition
boldness or daring with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety
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indefatigable
Definition
incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; unfiring
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