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Vocab 9
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English
11th Grade
03/14/2011

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Abate
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To make less in amount, to decrease
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Adulation
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Praise or flattery that is excessive
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Anathema
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Object of intense dislike
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Astute
Definition
Shrewd, crafty, wily, judicious
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Avarice
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Greedy, desire
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Culpable
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deserving blame, guilty
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Dilatory
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Tending to delay or procrastinate
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Egregious
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Conspicuous, blatant, flagrant, open
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Equivocate
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Deliberately vague, able to talk out of both sides of the mouth
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Evanescent
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Vanishing, soon passing away, transient
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Irresolute
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Unable to make up one's mind
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Nebulous
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Cloudlike, hazy, unclear
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Novice
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new, a beginner
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Penury
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extreme poverty, destitution
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Pretentious
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done for show, to make an impression, obstentations
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Recapitulate
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to review or sum up
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Resuscitate
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to revive, to bring back to life
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Slovenly
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untidy, dirty, careless
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Supposition
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something assumed, a guess
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Torpid
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in active, sluggish, dull
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