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R&J vocab
scene 5&6
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English
8th Grade
03/12/2012

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modesty
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- n. regard for decent speech or dress; freedom from showing off.
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Beguiled
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v. to influence by trickery.
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Solemnity
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-n. the state or character of being serious; earnestness; gravity.
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Penury
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n. extreme poverty; destitution.
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Privy
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n. participating in the knowledge of something private or secret
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Inexorable-
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-adj., unchanging, unyielding,
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culled
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v. to choose or discard out because of being the unfavorable or the least favorite
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Paramour
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n. a lover, esp. the illicit partner of a married person
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Hiatus
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n.) A break or interruption of something currently in the process
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Inauspicious
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(adj.) Unlucky; Not auspicious: boding ill: ill-omened; unfavorable.
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Languid
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- (adj.) Lack of vigor or vitality; slack or slow, lazy Languid LAX players
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Resplendent-
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(adj) Shining brilliantly;gleaming; splendid: < The man looked resplendenent in his tuxedo.>
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Presage
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(N) An omen; presentiment or foreboding:
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Obscured
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- (Adj.) hidden; Deficient in light; dark:
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Doleful
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Adj.) Sorroful; Mornful; Melancholy:
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