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Vocab Unit 8
Red Honors English
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8th Grade
02/23/2011
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conferment
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the act of bestowing, a formal offer
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periphery
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the outermost part or boundry
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gesticulater
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to make jestures for emphasis
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auspicious
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followed by favorable circumstances
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Fortuity
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Chance or accident
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Sopor
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sleep; drowsiness
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Vigilante
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someone who takes law enforcement into there own hands
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Acquiesce
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to give in
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Jocose
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Cheerful; merry
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plaintive
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sorrowfuk; expressing or evoking mourning or sadness
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pejorative
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negative and critical; insulting
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malaise
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a sence of unease; depression
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viridity
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lack of experience; innocence
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candid
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open and sincere
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pallid
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extreme or unnatural plaleness
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stanch
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to stop the flow of
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staunch
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firm and steadfast
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static
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having no motion or change
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entity
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a being
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malfeascace
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misconduct or wrong doing
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modus operandi
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manner of working
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