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Midterm Review
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39
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11th Grade
01/29/2014
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Truant
 Definition
Someone who cuts school and/or neglects duties
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Versatile
 Definition
Capable of doing many things well
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Reconcile
 Definition
To settle a problem
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Obsolete
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Outdated
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Torpid
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Inactive
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Trite
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Lacking originality/freshness
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Unprecedented
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Never done or known before
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Voracious
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Wanting or devouring great quantities of food
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Inaudible
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Unable to be heard
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Negated
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Nullify; Make ineffective
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Exacerbate
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To make something worse
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Vivid
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Lively and vigorous; producing powerful feelings or strong clear images in the mind
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Repudiate
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Refuse to accept or be associated with
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Novice
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New
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Lampoon
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To publicly criticize using sarcasm, Sharp Satire
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Obscure
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Not discovered, unknown
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Verbose
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Using more words than needed
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Patent
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Obvious; easily recognizable
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Illusive
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Misleading
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Innocuous
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Not harmful or offensive
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Truncate
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ending abruptly, cut off
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Ambiguous
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Double meaning
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Ubiquitous
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present, appearing, found everywhere
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Meager
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Lacking in quantity or quality
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Stoic
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a person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining
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Unheralded
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Unannounced
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Premonition
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A feeling that something is going to happen
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Tacit
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Understood or implied without being stated
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Swindle
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cheat someone out of money
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Obsequious
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obedient or attentive
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Tumultuous
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Loud confused noises
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Urbane
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Sophisticated
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Prevailing
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existing at a particular time
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Succinct
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briefly and clearly expressed
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Reticent
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Not revealing ones feelings or thoughts readily, reserved
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Rebuttal
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contradiction
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Succumb
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fail to resist
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Zealous
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Enthusiastic
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Systematic
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done according to a system, methodical
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