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English
10th Grade
09/14/2010

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Amorphous
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adj. lacking definite form; having no specific shapre; formless
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Atrophy
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Noun - a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage (progressive decline)
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Anomaly
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noun- a deviation from the common rule, tupe, arragnement, or form
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Agnostic
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Noun- a person who holds the existence of the ultimate cause, as god, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that himan knowledge is limite to experience
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Abstruse
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adj - hard to understand
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Abrogate
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verb - to abolish by formal or official means; annul by an authoritative act; repeal
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Abscond
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verb - to depart in a sudeen and secret manner, esp. to avoud capture and legal prosecution
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Abstemious
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adj - sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate indiet
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Acerbic
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adj - sour or astringent in tone
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Acrimonious
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adj - caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature, speech, behaivor
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Acumen
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noun - keep insight, clear understanding, intelligent, shrewd
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Prodigious
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adj - extraordinary in size, amount, etenst degree, force etc. BIG
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Exigent
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adj - requiring immediate action or aid; urgent
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Adhere
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to stay attached; stick fast
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Altercation
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a heated or angry dispute
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Amity
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friendship; peaceful harmony
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Circumambulate
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to walk or go about or around, esp ceremoniously (circle on foot)
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Ambient
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of the surrounding area or enviorment
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Ammbivalent
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uncertainty or fluctuation, esp when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desier to say or do two opposite or conflicting things
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