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Vocab Lists 1 and 2, winter mr. williams
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10th Grade
12/16/2009

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Concise
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adj. brief and to the point; succinct
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Immutable
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adj. unchangeable; permanent
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Static
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adj. stationary; not changing or moving
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Credulous
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adj. believing; gullible
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Blasphemy
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n. irreverence; an insult to something held sacred; profanity
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Coalesce
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v. to come together as one; to fuse; to unite
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Lax
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adj. careless; not diligent; relaxed
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Cryptic
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adj. mysterious; mystifying
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Levity
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adj. lightness; frivolity
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Ambivalent
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adj. undecided
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Innate
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adj. existing since birth; inborn; inherent
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Amiable
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Adj.. friendly
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Esoteric
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adj. hard to understand; understood by only a select few; peculiar
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Extraneous
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adj. irrelevant; extra; unnecessary; unimportant
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Tedious
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adj. boring
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caustic
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adj. like acid; corrosive
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exhaustive
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adj. thorough; complete
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incongruous
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adj. not harmonious; not consistent; not appropriate
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belittle
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v. to make to seem little
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unprecedented
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adj. happening for the first time; novel; never seen before
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digress
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v. off the subject
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appease
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v. to soothe; to pacify by giving in to
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frivolous
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adj. not serious; not solemn; with levity
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instigate
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v. to provoke; to stir up
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sage
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adj. wise; possessing wisdom derived from experience or learning
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predecessor
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n. someone or something that came before another
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jeopardy
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n. danger
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tangible
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adj. touchable; palpable
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indulgent
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adj. lenient; yielding to desire
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