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Vocab Part 5
Vocab for Donovan's AP class
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English
11th Grade
10/25/2007
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ebullient
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eager or enthusiastic
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chary
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careful or cautious
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profligate
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utterly and shamelessly immoral; recklessly extravegent or wasteful
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eschew
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to avoid or shun
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percursor
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someone or something that precedes another
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preen
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to adorn oneself carefully; to primp
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derivative
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unoriginal, coming from or based on something else
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peccadillo
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a minor offense
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iconoclast
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one who attacks popular beliefs or institutions, a maveric
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droll
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humorous or funny, often in an unusual way
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unlettered
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ignorant, unschooled, or unsofisticated
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burgeon
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to expand, to flourish, to bloom
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lassitude
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weakness or exhaustion
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latitude
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freedom
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castigate
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to criticize severly
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