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Vocab List 8&9
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10th Grade
02/15/2009

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Abrogate
Definition
(verb) to abolish by authoritive action; revoke.
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Adamant
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(adj) hard to convince, cannnot urge
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Barbarism
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(noun) a barbarian social or intellectual condition; brutal or uncivilised acts
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Colloquial
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(adj) Conversational; informal
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Compatriot
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a fellow citizen
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Defused
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(adj) made less harmful
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Effrontery
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(noun) bold; insolence; temerity
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Egregious
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(adj) extraordinarily bad; flagrant
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Gambol
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(verb) to frolic; skip around in play
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Hemophilia
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(noun) a disease in which the blood doesn't get clotted
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Immunity
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(noun) a condition of being able to resist anything
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Knotty
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(Adj) complicated; full of difficulties and complications
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Palliate
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(verb) to cover by excuses or apologies
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Tawdry
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(adj) cheap; gaudy; sleezy
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Libertarian
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(noun) someone who believes in free will
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Pallor
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(noun) showing sickness; paleness
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Temerity
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(noun) unreasonablly bold in a cockey way; Syn: effrontery
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Mired
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(adj) sunked fast in mud
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Pernicious
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(adj) deadly in an injurious way
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Utopian
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(adj) characterized by a perfect society
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Noxious
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(adj) deadly in a poisonous gas-y way
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Skulk
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(verb) to move as you hide
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Palatable
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(adj) tasty
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Air
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(noun) a distinctive; unintangaeable quality that surrouds a person (she had an ___ of mystery around her)

Ant: not living

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Augury
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(noun) divination from spices or omens

(Prediction)


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Beguile
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(verb) to lead by deception; to deceive
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Connoisseur
Definition
(noun) one who understands details, techniques, of some kind of art; an expert; a critical judge in matter of art or taste
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Debauchery

Definition

(noun or adj) extreme indulgence in sensuality; corruption; demorilazation; depravity --> to be corrupt. 

Syn: Taudry

Ex. It was a debauchery affair. or The debauchery in the scandalous affair

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Declivity
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(noun) downward inclination; a down hill

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Disencumber
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(verb) to free from burden
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Ebuillient
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(adj)having or showing liveliness or enthusiasm; agitated
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Fly-by-night

Definition

(noun) one that seeks to avade responsibilities and especially creditors by flight; not reliable or responsible

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Foliage
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(noun) a respresentation of flowers, leaves, and branches for architectual ornamentation; a plant

Ex: the summer foliage made me smile

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Germinate
Definition

(verb) to cause to sprout or develope of the mind usually

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Gratis

Definition
(adj) without charge or recompense; free
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Hues
Definition

(noun) graduation of color;

ocean blue and navy blue are hues of the color blue

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Impromptu
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(noun) something that is done in the spur of the moment
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Impromptu
Definition
(noun) something that is done in the spur of the moment
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Kudos
Definition
(noun) fame and renown resulting from an act of achievement; prestige; praise
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Lachrymose
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(adj) given to tears or weeping; tearful or mournful
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Lurid
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(adj) causing horror or revulsion; gassly??
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Muse
Definition

(verb) to become absorbed in thoughts or to look/ gape at.

to be the source of inspiration (noun)

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Philistine
Definition

(noun) one who lacks knowledge in a specific area.

smuggly indifferent (they don't care about anyone else= being smug)

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Rectitude
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(noun) the state of being straight or correct; to have moral integerity
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Rend
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(verb) to remove from place by violence; to divide by force
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Schisms
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(noun)to split or be seperated

Syn: Rend

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Uproarious
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(Adj) very noisy and full; chaotic
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Diatribe
Definition

(noun) an abusive speech or writing

Syn: Criticism

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