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The Once and Future Kind Book 4
SAT Vocab words from the Candle in the Wind
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10th Grade
12/12/2010
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Flamboyant
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Showy
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scrupulous
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very precise
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plait
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a braid of material
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tenacious
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difficult to loosen
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megalomania
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greed for power
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cunning
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crafty and deceitful
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defiance
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resistance to authority
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thwart
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to prevent somebody or somebody's plan from being successful
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ferret
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To uncover and bring to light by searching
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mendicant
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living on charity
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scaffold
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any raised framework
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pinnacle
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the highest or culminating point
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excommunicate
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to cut off from communion with a church
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disreputable
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not reputable
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conscription
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compulsory contribution of money to a government during a time of war
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gargoyle
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a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal
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plaintively
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expressive of suffering or woe
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commiseration
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sympathy
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sniveler
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to weep or cry with sniffling
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contemptuous
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showing or feeling contempt
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presumptuous
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rude or arrogant
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remorselessly
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Having no pity or compassion
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lout
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an offensive term that deliberately insults the behavior and attitude of somebody, especially a young man
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gambled
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To play a game of chance for stakes
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blandness
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The state or quality of being bland
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carnage
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Massive slaughter
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variance
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an instance of varying
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penance
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An act of self-mortification or devotion performed voluntarily to show sorrow for a sin
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skulk
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hide somewhere
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sneer
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expression of scorn
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fealty
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allegiance to feudal lord
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prattle
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talk idly or childishly
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grapple
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hand-to-hand struggle
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dire
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very bad
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