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Vocab Chapters 5 + 6
Trill, Kelly
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English
10th Grade
10/02/2012

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Flavorless, Dull or Unexciting; Lifeless
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Insipid
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Very careful; Diligent; requiring great care; meticulous
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Painstaking
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To become worse or less value; to diminish
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Deteriorate
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To feel deep sorrow; to express sorrow or mourning for; to grieve. An expression of grief, song or poem.
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Lament
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Pity for someone else's suffering; along with a desire to help.
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Compassion
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To detect with one of the senses, to Notice; to recognize as different or to identify as separate; to come to know mentally; to judge
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Discern
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To restrain; to keep or put down
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Repress
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To feel intense dislike or hatred; to detest
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Loathe
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Self-possession; tranquility
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Composure
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Exceedingly bad; wicked or cruel
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Atrocious
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Continually; prepetually; constantly; always
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Invariably
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Nearness; closeness, a neighboring area
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Proximity
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An associated person or organization; a member. To join or unite with a larger body.
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Affiliates
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To make young or vigorous again; to give youthful qualities to
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Rejuvenated
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Comfortably fat or stout; large and heavy in a stately and dignified way
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Portly
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To hinder; to obstruct; to burden
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Encumbered
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Never done or known before; without previous example.
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Unprecedented
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Overjoyed with excitement; raised in status or rank; elevated in style or tone.
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Exalted
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Overly dignified; self-important; characterized by exaggerated stateliness, as in speech or manner.
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Pompous
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Appearing to be true; reasonable; seeming to be logical or correct
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Plausible
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