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Vocab 21 + 22
Trill - 2.27.2013
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English
10th Grade
02/26/2013

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Based on or consisting of documents; employing facts rahter than fiction. Presentation of factual events.
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Documentary
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Temporary relief (from pain or trouble); order of temporarily delaying punishment
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Reprieve
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To rise and fall or move back and forth; change continually and irregularly
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Fluctuate
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Window that opens on hinges along it's side.
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Casement
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Marked by great emotion, force or conviction.
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Vehement
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Present for the first time. First public appearance; as an actor.
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Debut
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Sad, depressed; causing of sadness.
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Melancholy
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Music or a mass for the dead
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Requiem
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Hypothetical, unapproved or uncertain
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Theoretical
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Straddle; sit on the middle with a leg on each side.
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Bestriding
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Greed; great rejoicing; regard with greedy pleasure.
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Gloat
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Something inherited or handed down; money or property left by will.
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Legacy
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Contionous clanging; loud sound
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Clanger
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Influence or persuade by using flattery or soothing words.
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Whelled
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Government document giving a person right to profit from invention; acquire such a doucment; evident
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Patent
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Charge with offense or crime; make a formal conviction
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Indict
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Founder and leader of a tribe or family
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Patriarch
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To humiliate or discipline by denial
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Mortified
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Command in law; forbid
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Enjoin
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Discolored by a bruise; pale; white or red with anger of affliction
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Livid
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