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Unit 6
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20
English
12th Grade
01/15/2012

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Abortive
Definition
ADJ: failing to accomplish an intended aim or purpose
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Bruit
Definition
V: to spread news, reports, or unsubstantiated rumors
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Contumelious
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ADJ: insolent or rude in speech or behavior; humiliating
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Dictum
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N: a short saying; an authoritative statement
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Ensconce
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V: to settle comfortably and firmly in position; to hide in a safe place
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Iconoclastic
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ADj: attacking or seeking to overthrow popular or traditional beliefs
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In Medias Res
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ADJ: in the middle of things
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Internecine
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ADJ: mutually destructive
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Maladroit
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ADJ: lacking skill or dexterity; lacking tact
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Maudlin
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ADJ: excessively sentimental
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Modulate
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V: to temper or soften; to regulate, adjust
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Portentous
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ADJ: foreshadowing an event to come; pompous
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Prescience
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N: knowledge of events or actions before they happen; foresight
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Quid Pro Quo
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N: a trade
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Salubrious
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ADJ: conductive to helth or well-being; wholesome
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Saturnalian
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ADJ: characterized by riotous or unretrained revelry
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Touchstone
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N: a means of testing worth
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Traumatic
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ADJ: so shocking to the emotions as to cause lasting and substantial psychological damage
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Vitiate
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V: to weaken or corrupt
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Waggish
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ADJ: fond of making jokes
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