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The Crucible Part 3
McLeod washington honors vocab crucible part 3
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English
11th Grade
10/28/2009

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confined; restricted; limited; related to a parish
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parochial
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gaining favor or favorable acceptance by deliberate effort
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ingratiating
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to teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; teaching, indoctrination
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inculcation
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confuse, dismay, perplex, mix up
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confound
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unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true; skeptical, disbelieving
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incredulous
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a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument; viewpoint, position
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contention
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conflict, a verbal struggling; controversy
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contention
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anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean
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indignation
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stunned, astonished; amazed and made unable to speak
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dumbfounded
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aimed at overcoming the distrust or animosity of; peaceable, compromising
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conciliatory
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repayment; returning an injury or wrong; getting revenge
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retaliation
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of impenetrable hardness; firm, unyielding
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adamant
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shameless boldness
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effrontery
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cleared of guilt; freed from moral or ceremonial defilement
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purged
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cleansed, cleared, purified, evacuated
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purged
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amends or reparation made for an injury or wrong; expiation, reconciliation; appeasement; atonement
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propitiation
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deficiency of color; paleness
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pallor
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to make better or more tolerable; improve
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ameliorate
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urgently eager, enthusiastic; characterized by enthusiasm and vigorous pursuit
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avid
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to give way; to recoil in dread or terror; cringe
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quail
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argumentative, quarrelsome; exhibiting a tendency to quarrels and disputes
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contentious
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namelessness, unknownness
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anonymity
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extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree; marvelous; impressively great in size, force, or extent; enormous
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prodigious
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to adhere firmly, cling
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cleave
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abhorrence; disgust; a cause of abhorrence or disgust
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abomination
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horror, hatred, revulsion, aversion
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abomination
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conterminous, touching, neighboring, adjacent, connected
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contiguous
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sharing an edge or boundary
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contiguous
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the study of the physical universe considered as a totality of phenomena in time and space; a study of the dynamics of the universe
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cosmology
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calumny, slander; the act of damaging the reputation or character of by slander or libel
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defamation
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something that exists as a discrete (distinct) unit
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entity
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being, thing, object, reality
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entity
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cautiously, carefully
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gingerly
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fervent sometimes militant supporters or proponents of a cause, person, or idea; promoters
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partisans
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(adj) take off the ending first - factional, biased, one-sided
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partisans
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alarm, dread, or apprehension
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trepidation
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