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Unit 3
Unit 3 Vocab
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English
12th Grade
02/09/2010

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accolade
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(n) award of merit
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accommodate
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(v) to render fit or correspondent; to adapt to circumstances; to make adjustment; to make room for
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bequeath
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(v) to leave someone by will; hand down
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capricious
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(adj) subject to whims or passing fancies; spur of the moment
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deference
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(n) courteous regard for another's wish
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egregious
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(adj) conspicious, standing out from the mass (used particularly in an unfavorable sense); remarkably bad
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fallacious
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(adj) embodying a falsehood; misleading as in wrong thinking/reasoning
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immutable
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(adj) unchangeable
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impassive
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(adj) without feelings; not affected by pain
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languish
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(v) lose animation; lose strength
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nepotism
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(n) undue favoritism to or excessive patronage of one's relatives or close personal friends
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obsequious
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(adj) marked by slavish attentiveness; excessively submissive, often for purely self-interested reasons
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paradox
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(n) a seemingly contradictory statement
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sage
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(adj) wisdom gained though experience
(n) one who is considered wise
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vehemently
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(adv) intensely, forcefully, powerfully
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