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Vocab 14- Enriching the lesson
exercises 1, 2, 3
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English
10th Grade
12/21/2010

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laborious
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requiring a lot of time and effort
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unanimous
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two or more people fully in agreement
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magnanimous
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very generous and forgiving esp. to one less powerful to ones self
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puerile
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childishly silly and trivial
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terminate
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bring to an end
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mandate
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an official order to do something
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supersede
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taking the place of an object or person previously in authority
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raucous
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making a harsh loud noise
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nascent
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the beginning stages of something
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jocose
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playful and humurous
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nugatory
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of no value or importance
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punitive
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inflicted or intended as punishment
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obliterate
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to utterly destroy/wipe out
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ratify
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formal consent given to a written document, making it officially consented to
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malevolent
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having/showing the wish to do evil upon others
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nullify
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to make void
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regress
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return to a former, less developed state
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lapse
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a temporary failure in concentration, memory or judgement
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rapacious
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aggressively greedy or grasping
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negotiate
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try to reach an agreement or compromise through discussion
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superfluous
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unneccessary, more than enough
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provoke
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stimulate or give rise to a reaction
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quash
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put an end to, supress
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militate
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be a power and conclusive factor in preventing
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notorious
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famous for a bad deed
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elated
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glad (extreme)
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austere
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restrained (extreme)
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detest
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dislike (extreme0
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solemn
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serious (extreme)
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adore
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like (extreme)
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immaculate
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clean (extreme)
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sagacious
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wise (extreme)
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overbearing
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forceful (extreme)
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chaotic
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disorderly (extreme)
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distraught
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pertrubed (extreme)
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opulent
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well-off (extreme)
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outrage
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offend (extreme)
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snob
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a personwith exaggerated respect for the upper-class and will not associate with a lower class
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moralistic
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a person who promotes morality
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dogmatic
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inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true
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sanctimonious
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making a show of being morally superior to others
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labored
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done with great difficulty
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autocratic
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of or relating to a ruler with absolute power
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poseur
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a person who acts in an affected manner to impreess others
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conceit
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excessive pride in oneself
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authoritarian
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strict obediance to authority, especially government
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dilettante
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a person who dabbles in many things, without any real interests
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egocentric
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thinking only of oneself
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preciosity
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overrefinement in the arts, especially language
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bumptious
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self-assertive to an irritating degree
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perfectionist
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a person wh orefuses to accept any work that falls short of perfection
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purist
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a person who insists on absolute adherence to any structures or rules
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self-righteous
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characterized by a certainty that one is morally superior
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narcissism
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excessive interest in something
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jingoism
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excessively patriotic especially in an agressive warlike foreign policy
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