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Tess of the D'urberville VOCAB
VOCAB/ DEFINITIONS
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11th Grade
03/25/2009
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Ardent
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passionate
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Attenuated
 Definition
weakened
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Beatitude
 Definition
supreme happiness
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Consternation
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paralyzing dismay
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Countenance
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face, facial expression
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Debased
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lowered in value or quality
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Efficacy
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effectiveness
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Languorous
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quiet, still, dreamy, lazy
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Malignant
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very harmful
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mendacious
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false, untruthful
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reproach
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blame shame disapproval
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reverie
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lost in thought, day dream
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spurious
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plase, not genuine
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succumb
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to yeild to an overwheling force
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tacit
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unspoken
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transient
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passing with time, fleeting
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untenable
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impossible to maintain, defend
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untinctured
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pure
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vacillating
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wavering in purpose or will
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vicissitudes
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changes or shifts in fortune
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acquiescence
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passive acceptance
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aversion
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turning away in distaste, strong disslike, rejection
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caustic
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biting corrosive, sarcastic
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conjecture
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inference, guesswork
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consonance
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agreement
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culpable
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deserving of the blame
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fastidiousness
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exacting, difficult to please
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fervid
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passionate
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heterodoxy
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ideas that question or oppose accepted ideas
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incensed
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veryangry
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inimical
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harmful
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incessant
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continuing w/out interuption
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magnanimity
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generiously forgiving, nobility of spirit
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plaintive
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sorrowfull
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predilection
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a strong preference or partiality
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proclivity
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a tendency or inclaniation
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reticence
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reluctance to reveal ones thoughts or feelings
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self abnegation
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setting aside self interest
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self effacement
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act of keeping onself in the background
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sophistry
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logical or devious argument that makes what is false seem true
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stoicism
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dont show emotion
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unobtrusive
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not attracting notice, inconspicuious
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visage
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face, appearance
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capricious
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impulsive
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no compunction
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a pang of conscience
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despotic
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ruling others like a dictator
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futile
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having no useful result
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implacable
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impossible to satify
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incongruity
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lack of harmony
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recrudescence
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an outbreak of activity after a quiet time
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recrudescence
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an outbreak of activity after a quiet time
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supplication
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humble feeling
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polemical
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one sided
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syllogism
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3 part argument
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