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Voacb Lesson 7 8
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8th Grade
03/25/2009
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valiant
 Definition
brave, courageous
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transgression
 Definition
going beyond boundries
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chaste
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virginal, modest
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Profane
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to degrade
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discourses
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long speaches
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entreat
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to plead, beg
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Perjuries
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telling a lie under oath
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Peverse
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behaving bad intentionally
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thrive
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to make steady progress
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chide
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scold mildly
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rancor
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bitter, rivalry
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concieve
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to think, imagine
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dissembler
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a fake person
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sojourn
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a temporary stay
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omit
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to fail to include
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abhors
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to hate
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stategems
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a move to decive the enemy... army
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penury
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poverty
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disperse
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to scatter
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dispatch
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to kill or send to a specific destination
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pestilence
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a plague
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inauspicious
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not favorable to success
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casements
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a window that opens like a door
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shun
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to avoid
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pensively
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done while thinking
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tether
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a rope or chain
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rued
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felt regret for
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diverge
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to extend in differtn directions froma  point
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gunwale
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the upper edge of a ship
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iridecent
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rainbowlike colors

 
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buffeted
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to hit or strike agianst
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tempered
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to make less violent
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efface
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to erace
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altercation
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argument
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futility
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being useless
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elucidate
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to make clear
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unmitigated
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not softened or weakend pure
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temerity
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boldness
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spurious
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not authentic or valid
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acertaining
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to find out or discover
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