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Minick Vocab 1-5
vocabulary 1-5
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12th Grade
09/28/2011
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cogent
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covincing
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Exigent
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urgent need
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Assay
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to Judge
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Intransight
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uncompromising
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incite
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to arouse to action
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resuscitate
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to revive
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solicitious
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worried, or concerned
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perturb
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to upset
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turbluent
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marked by agitation or tumult
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turbid
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cloudy or discolored
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alacrity
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cheerful readiness
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celerity
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speed
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degenerate
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to undergo detoriation
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engender
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to produce
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genre
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a distincitive type or literally tpye, or catagory of espically literally composition
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cognate
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the same or similar in nature
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innate
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inborn
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nascent
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coming into existance
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transfigure
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to change apperance
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fictive
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of or relating to in fiction
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parturient
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giving birth, or being in labor
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repetory
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stock of things
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agraian
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of or relating to land or its ownership
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egregious
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bad, or terrible
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pastoral
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calm, peaceful
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repast
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feast
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bucloic
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rural, pastoral
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rustic
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related to country; rural
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idyllic
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peaceful
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fruition
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enjoyment, accomplishment
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fruitless
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unsucessful
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gregarious
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social, outgoing
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peregination
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journey, espically on foot
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aggregate
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collect, to collect one or more, mass of things
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abscond
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sneak away, getting away in a secretly manner
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cryptic
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mysterious, puzzling
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aprture
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opening, whole
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covert
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covered up
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overt
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not covered
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context
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words surrounding a word or event
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subtext
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underline meaning
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apocryphal
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of doubtful meaning/authorship
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recondite
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little known
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remit
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pay
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vehement
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strongly emotional, passionate
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emblematic
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symbolic
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diabolical
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wicked- like the devil
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episodic
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occuring only now and then
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surmise
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to guess, a guess
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surmise
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to guess, a guess
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demise
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death
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hyperbole
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extreame exaggeration
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synod
 Definition
church comittee
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