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Vocab 9
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English
9th Grade
01/09/2014

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Pernicious
Definition
causing injury or ruin

SYN-deadly
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Augment
Definition
Increase; enlarge

SYN-extend
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Grievance
Definition
Complaint; an expression of dissatisfaction

SYN-gripe
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Transgression
Definition
wrongdoing; sin; an act of breaking a law of regulation
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Heretics
Definition
Those who hold to a belief opposed to the established teaching of a CHURCH; a person who dissents from the doctrine of an established church
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Portentous
Definition
Promising bad fortune or future disaster

SYN-apocalyptic; grave; ominous
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Importune(d)
Definition
Question(ed) deeply; to trouble persistently

SYN-harass
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Fray
Definition
noisy fight; quarrel or disturbance marked by disorderly and often violent behavior

SYN-brawl
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Chastity
Definition
The state or quality of being chaste (Not having sex)

SYN-purity
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Reckoning
Definition
of good reputation; regarding highly; looking up to
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Anguish
Definition
Excruciating mental or physical pain or suffering; agony; torture

SYN-distress; torture
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Fortnight
Definition
2 weeks
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Beseech
Definition
To make an urgent or earnest request

SYN-implore; beg; plead
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Solemnity
Definition
High seriousness of manner or bearing; a celebration or observance marked with gravity and dignity
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Choler
Definition
Anger or hastiness of temper

SYN-hostility; irateness
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Purge
Definition
Purify; to cleanse of what s impure or extraneous; to free from sin or guilt
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Loathe
Definition
To regard with extreme dislike and hostility

SYN-detest; despise
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Kinsmen
Definition
A blood relation (can also be connected by marriage)
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Cunning
Definition
Deceitful cleverness; slyness

SYN-artifice; craftiness
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Variable
Definition
Capable of or liable to change

SYN-alterable; mutable; not constant; fickle
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