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11th Grade
05/27/2009

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amenable
Definition
ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable
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berate
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to scold; rebuke
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carnage
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the slaughter of a great number of people, as in battle; butchery; massacre
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credulous
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willing to believe or trust too readily, esp. without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
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criterion
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a standard of judgment or criticism; a rule or principle for evaluating or testing something
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deplete
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to decrease seriously or exhaust the abundance or supply of
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expatiate
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elaborate
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extraneous
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not pertinent; irrelevant
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inception
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beginning; start; commencement
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infirmity
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a physical weakness or ailment
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adamant
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inflexible, rigid, uncompromising
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brouhaha
Definition
loud cry; commotion
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bulwark
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any protection against external danger, injury, or annoyance
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choleric
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extremely irritable or easily angered; irascible
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cloy
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to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate
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curtail
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to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish
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deference
Definition
respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another.
2. respectful or courteous regard
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definitive
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complete, absolute, ultimate, supreme
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demeanor
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conduct; behavior; deportment
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enigmatic
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perplexing; mysterious
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impromptu
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made or done without previous preparation
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mawkish
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characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional
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mollify
Definition
pacify, soothe
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onus
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a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden
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presentiment
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a feeling or impression that something is about to happen
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profligate
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utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
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remit
Definition
send, transfer
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requisite
Definition
required or necessary for a particular purpose, position
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sartorial
Definition
of or pertaining to tailors or their trade
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thwart
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to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose. frusturate, baffle
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sententious
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compact
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surfeit
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excess satiate
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tortuous
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very twisted
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obdurate
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stubborn
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extraneous
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irrelevant
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expatiate
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elaborate
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berate
Definition
criticize hatefully
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sadistic
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cruel
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supplicate
Definition
desire, ask fo
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jejune
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immature
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potpourri
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