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Unit 8 Vocab.
Finals
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English
11th Grade
06/04/2009

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Distend
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To swell or become expanded
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Contentious
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Quarrelsome
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Portend
Definition
To give a sign or warning beforehand
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Tendentious
Definition
Leaning toward a particular point of view
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Appendage
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Something joined on to a larger or more important body or thing
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Expend
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To pay out, to use up
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Propensity
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An often intense natural inclination or preforence
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Stipend
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A sum of money paid at regular internals in return for services or to cover expenses
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Panacea
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A remedy for all ills or difficulties, cure all
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Pandemonium
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A wild uproar or commotion
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Panegyric
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A formal speech or statement giving high praise to someone or something
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Panoply
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A magnificent or impressive array or a display of all appropriate accessory item
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Extra mundane
Definition
Situated in or relating to a region beyond the material world
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Extrapolate
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To extend or project facts/ data into an area not known in order to make assumptions or to predict facts or trends
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Extrovert
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A person mainly concerned with things outside him/herself, a sociable and outgoing person
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Extraneous
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Existing or coming from the outside; irrelevant
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Elucidate
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To clarify; explain
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Lucent
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Giving off light; easily seen through
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Lucubration
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A hard and difficult study
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Translucent
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Partly transparent; allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it so that objects beyond cannot be seen clearly
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Immortality
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Deathless or unending existence; lasting fame
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Moribund
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In the process of dying of approaching
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Mortician
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A person who prepared the dead for burial or cremation and manages the funeral
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Internecine
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Deadly;involving conflict within a group [battle]
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Necrosis
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The usually localized death of living tissue
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Noxious
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harmful to or destructive of living things
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Pernicious
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Extremely harmful of destructive
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Phosphorescent
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Giving off a glow that continues after an energy source had stopped transmitting energy
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Photogenic
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Very suitable for being photographed
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Photon
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A tiny particle of bundle of energy
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Photosynthesis
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The process by which green plants use light to produce organic matter from carbon dioxide and water
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