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lessons 1-12
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English
9th Grade
01/11/2010

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avail

 

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verb;to draw back in fear
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plumb
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verb;to search deeply

adj;perfectly vertical or strait

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tryst
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noun;an appiontment to meet such as with lovers
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mulct
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verb;to punish or fine
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moot
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adj;debabtable
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mete
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verb;to give out
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knell
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verb;to ring slowly
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bane
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noun; the cause of death ruin of destress
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deign
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verb; to look down on
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roil
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verb;to stir up
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eke
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verb;to barly get by
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thrall
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noun; a slave
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svelte
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adj;slender graceful
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shunt
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verb;to move or turn to one side
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biennial
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adj;happens every two years
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adonis
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noun; an exceptionally handsome young man
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hymeneal
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noun; a wedding song or poem
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cornocopia
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noun;alot
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palladium
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noun; a place that provides protection
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narcissism
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noun; admiration of ones self
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comaraderie
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noun; good friendship
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elite
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best most skilled
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hierarchy
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noun; a group of persons arranged in order of rank
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farrier
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noun; blacksmith
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graphologist
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noun; a handwritting analyst
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osteopath
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noun; someone who treats aliments by applying pressire to bones
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alienist
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noun; a doctor who specializes in mental disease
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pharyngologist
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noun; a doctor who specializes in the disease of throat, mouth, nassel passages
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ecumenical
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adj; general
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contrite
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adj; crushed by feeling of guilt
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hobnob
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verb; accociate on friendly terms
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liason
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noun; contact between two groups of people
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complaisant
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adj; willing to please
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entomologist
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noun; specialist who studies insects
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saturnine
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adj; sluggish, groomy
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esrit de corpes
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noun; a sense of union that ties a group together
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dermatologist
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noun; doctor who specializes in skin
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odyssey
Definition
a long journey
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cabal
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noun; a clique or small group joined in secret
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denente
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noun; relaxing or easing of tension
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echelon
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noun; a level or rank
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grotic
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adj; concerning sexual love or marrage
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captious
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critical wuick to find fault
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beadle
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 noun; a minor offical
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canssandra
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noun; someone who always predicts the worst will happen
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baleful
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adj; sinister or deadly
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dyspeptic
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adj; grouchy

noun; suffering from integestion

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neurasthenic
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adj;having emotional conflict
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convivial
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adj; festive
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bilious
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adj; bad tempered
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lachrymose
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adj; sad inclined to shed tears
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churlish
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adj; surly unpleasent
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quixotic
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adj; impractical
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protean
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adj; changable
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tawdry
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adj; cheap gawdy
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procrustean
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adj; designed to secure confirmity
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olympian
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adj; superior
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herculean
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adj; hard and requires alot of strength to acheive
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iredesent
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adj; colorful
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philanderer
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noun; person who engages in passing love affairs
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nemisis
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noun; an agent of punishment
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freemasonary
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noun; a secret group or brotherhood
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rapprochement
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noun; the reastablishing of friendship
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maverick
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noun; a person who acts independently
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sybarite
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noun; a person who is fond of richess
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belicose
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adj; warlike
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pyrrhic victory
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noun; a victory that has come at great cost to winners
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phillipic
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noun; a bitter verbal attack
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solecism
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noun; a volation of good manners
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spoonerism
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noun; an unententional exchange of words
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lothario
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noun; a person who suduces others
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cortege
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noun; a group of attendents
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caste
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noun; a distinct social class
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hydra
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noun; a problem with many sides to it
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debonair
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adj; courteous
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acidvious
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adj; somewhat acid or sour
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craven
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adj; cowardly
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augury
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noun; an omen
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subliminal
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adj; subconscious
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score
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noun; twenty people or objects
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generation
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noun; a period of time between the birth of one group and the birth of its offspring
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tercentenary
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noun; a period of 300 years
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ephemeral
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adj; short lived
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anachronism
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noun; something that seems out of place and time
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physiologist
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noun; a biologist that studies the functions and processes of living organsims
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psychotherapy
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noun; using forms of mental treatments to cure disease
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pyschopath
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noun; a person with a mental disorder
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archtype
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noun; model or pattern
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diurnal
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adj; happening during the day
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atavism
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noun; resemble an ancestor
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antebellum
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adj; before the war
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anon
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adj; soon shortly
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lapidary
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noun; an expert in precious stones
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epoch
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noun; a noteworthy period in time
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internist
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noun; doctor who specializes in internal meds.
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cosmetologist
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noun; expert in makeup
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ophthalonolgist
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noun; an expret zoologist who studies birds
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psychic
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noun; a person who posesses supernatural powers of the mind
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euthanasia
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noun; method of causing death pruposly and painlessly
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epidemology
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noun; studies emidemics
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betimes
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adj; fairly promptly
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antediluvain
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adj; old fashioned
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trauma
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noun; emotional expreience that has lasting effects
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schhizophrenia
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noun; split personality
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crescendo
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noun; a gradual increase in volume
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andante
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adj; moderate in tempo
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vendetta
Definition
noun; a prolonged fued
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largo
Definition
adj; slow and solem
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libretto
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noun; the text of an opera or other musical work
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staccato
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adj; adrupt, distinct
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bravura
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noun; difficult peice in music
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hermetic
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adj; air tight
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imbroglio
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noun; a confused sittuation
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arpeggio
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noun; the playing of cords in rapid succesion rather then all at once
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fortissimo
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noun; a very loud passage
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salvo
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noun; a sudden outburst of cheers
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phoenix
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noun; something beautiful that is remade after distruction
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amanuensis
Definition
noun; a secertary or copier
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adagio
Definition
adverb; slowly in music
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falsetto
Definition
noun; a typical high male singing voice
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contrato
Definition
noun; the lowest female part
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bacchanacal
Definition
noun; a partier
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demography
Definition
noun; science of vital statistics
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authoritarian
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adj; strict
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catharisis
Definition
noun; relieving of emotions
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anthropomorphism
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noun; giving human types of characteristics to non human like animals
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abberant
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adj; deiviating from what is normal
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manana
Definition
noun; tomorrow
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palmetto
Definition
noun; small palm tree
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barrio
Definition
noun; a part of the city where spanish people live
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bonanza
Definition
noun; a large source of wealth
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lariat
Definition
noun; a lasso
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machismo
Definition
manly self assurence
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renegad
Definition
noun; a rebel
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desperado
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noun; a bold outlaw
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flotilla
Definition
noun; small fleet of boats
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torero
Definition
noun; bullfighter on foot
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aficiondo
Definition
noun; a fan of something
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bravado
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noun; pretended courage
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siesta
Definition
nap
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grandee
Definition
noun; noblemen of highest rank
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hacienda
Definition
noun; large estate
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abscess
Definition
noun; a swolen inflamed area of body tissue
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aphasia
Definition
noun; the loss of power to understand words
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aneroscierosis
Definition
noun;the hardening of arteries
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biopsy
Definition
noun; the cutting of a peice of tissue for diagonostic purposes
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cadaver
Definition
noun; a dead body used for disection
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carcinogen
Definition
noun; a substance that causes cancer
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comoatose
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adj; as if in a coma
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etiology
Definition
noun; the science that studies the orgins of disease
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malingerer
Definition
noun; someone who fakes illness
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mastectomy
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noun; the surgical removal of the breasts
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prosthesis
Definition
noun; the replacement for a missing body part
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simian
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adj; monkey like
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therapeutic
Definition
adj; able to heal
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turmescene
Definition
noun; swelling
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vasectomy
Definition
noun; the removal of the duct that convays male sperm
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bovine
Definition
noun; an ox or cow
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equine
Definition

noun;horse

adj;horse like

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feline
Definition

noun; member of the cat family

adj; cat like

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hircine
Definition
adj;goat like
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leonine
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adj; lion like
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lupine
Definition
adj; wolf like, ravenous
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ophidian
Definition
adj; snake like
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ovine
Definition

noun; sheep

adj; sheep like

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piscine
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adj; fish like
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porcine
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adj; pig like
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saurian
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noun; a lizard

adj; lizard like

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taurine
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adj; bull like
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ursine
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adj;bear like
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vixen
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noun; a female fox, a malicious women
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vulpine
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adj; fox like, clever
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