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12th Grade
10/28/2008

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ancillary
Definition
providing necesary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization, institution, industry, or system
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bibulous
Definition
excessively fond of drinking alcohol
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bilious
Definition
affected by or associated with nausea or vomiting, (of a color) lurid or sickly, spiteful, bad-tempered
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chimera
Definition
fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head, goat's body, and serpent's tail, a thing that is hoped or wished for but in fact is illusory or impossible to achieve
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effete
Definition
affected, overrefined, and ineffectual, no longer capable of effective action
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hidebound
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unwilling or unable to change because of tradition or convention
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indigenous
Definition
originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native
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ineffable
Definition
to great or extreme to be expressed or described in words, not to be uttered
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lachrymose
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tearful or given to weeping, inducing tears, sad
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noisome
Definition
having an extremely offensive smell, disagreeable, unpleaseant, harmful, noxious
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pragmatic
Definition
dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations
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quizzical
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indicating mild or amused puzzlement, causing mild amusement because of its oddness or strangeness
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ribald
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referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way
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risible
Definition
such as to provoke laughter, having the faculty or power of laughing, inclined to laugh
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supine
Definition
lying face upward, with the palm upward, failing to act or protest as a result of moral weakness or indolence
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