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Unit 4 Vocab
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English
11th Grade
10/25/2012

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Affable
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(adj) courteous and pleasant; sociable, easy to speak to
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Aggrandize
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(v) to increase in greatness, power, or wealth; build up or intensify; to appear greater
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Amorphous
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(adj) shapeless, without definite form; no particular type; without organization
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Archetype
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(n) an original model after which similar things are patterned; an example
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Aura
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(n) that which surrounds; distinctive air or personal quality
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Contraband
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(n) illegal traffic, smuggled goods; (adj) illegal, prohibited
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Erudite
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(adj) scholarly learned; boorish, pedantic
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Gossamer
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(adj) thin, light, delicate; (n) very thin, light cloth
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Infer
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(v) to find out by reasoning; hint, suggest, imply
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Inscrutable
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(adj) impossible to see through physically; incapable of being understood
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Insular
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(adj) relating to, characteristic of, or situated on an island; isolated in outlook or experience
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Irrevocable
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(adj) incapable of being changed or called back
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Propensity
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(n) a natural inclination or bent towards
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Querulous
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(adj) peevish, complaining, fretful
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Remonstrate
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(v) to argue or plead with someone against something; object to
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Repudiate
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(v) to disown, reject, or deny the validity of
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Resilient
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(adj) able to return to an original shape or form; able to recover quickly
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Retrench
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(v) to cut down, reduce in scope or cost
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Reverberate
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(v) to re-echo or resound; to reflect or be reflected repeatedly
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Scurrilous
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(adj) coarsely abusive, vulgar or low; foul mouthed
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Sedulous
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(adj) persistent, showing industry and determination
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Sleazy
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(adj) thin or flimsy in texture, cheap, shoddy, ethically mean
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Malinger
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(v) to pretend to be ill or otherwise incapacitated to avoid work
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Abase
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(v) to humiliate; lower in the eyes of other
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Chimerical
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(adj) imaginary
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