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11th Grade
06/06/2010

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Abstemious
Definition
sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet.
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Accrue
Definition
to happen or result as a natural growth, addition, etc.
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Annotation
Definition
a critical or explanatory note or body of notes added to a text.
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Bedlam
Definition
a scene or state of wild uproar and confusion.
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Covert
Definition
Secret
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Debonair
Definition
Courteous, Nice
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Dun
Definition
Demand Payment
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Efficacious
Definition
capable of having the desired result
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Equanimity
Definition
Mental or Emotional stability or composure
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Fortuitous
Definition
happening by chance
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Gist
Definition
Main or central part of a matter
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Gratuitous
Definition
Given to free
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Imperious
Definition
Overbearing or urgent
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Invective
Definition
an abusive or insulting word
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Motley
Definition
exhibiting a great diversity of things
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Munificent
Definition
very generous
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Provocative
Definition
tending to provoke
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Recondite
Definition
dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter
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Reprobate
Definition
a depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person
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Sedentary
Definition
characterized by or requiring a sitting posture
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Censurable
Definition
Deserving Blame
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Contingent
Definition
To depend on
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Corroborate
Definition
to make more certain, confirm
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Denizen
Definition
An inhabitant, resident
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Discursive
Definition
passing aimlessly from one subject to another
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Disseminate
Definition
to scatter or spread widely
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Dowdy
Definition
not stylish; drab; old-fashioned
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Florid
Definition
reddish; ruddy; rosy
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Foist
Definition
to force upon or impose fraudulently or unjustifiably
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Gauche
Definition
lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude; tactless
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Heresy
Definition
the maintaining of such an opinion or doctrine.
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Inculcate
Definition
to cause or influence (someone) to accept an idea or feeling
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palpable
Definition
readily or plainly seen, heard, perceived, etc.; obvious; evident
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Perceptive
Definition
having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition
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Pernicious
Definition
causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful
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Salient
Definition
prominent or conspicuous
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Satiate
Definition
to supply with anything to excess, so as to disgust or weary; surfeit.
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Sear
Definition
to burn or char the surface
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Specious
Definition
apparently good or right though lacking real merit
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Absolve
Definition
To set free from obligation
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Caricature
Definition
Exaggeration by means of comic obligation
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Clanger
Definition
Resounding clangs
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Contiguous
Definition
Touching
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Cupidity
Definition
Excessive desire especially for wealth
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Deleterious
Definition
Having a harmful effect
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Enhance
Definition
To make greater
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Enthrall
Definition
enslave
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Extenuate
Definition
To lessen by making excuses
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Incisive
Definition
Impressively direct and decisive
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Implicit
Definition
understand though not directly stated
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Ostentatious
Definition
marked by or fond of conspicious
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Paragon
Definition
a model of excellence or perfection
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Paraphrase
Definition
Shorten a lecture
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Politic
Definition
Characteristic by shrewdness, contriving, dealing
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Prosaic
Definition
A characteristic of prouse
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Redundant
Definition
Exceeding what is necessary
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Sanctimonious
Definition
Hypocritically Devout
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Scintillating
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Witty
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Winsome
Definition
causing joy or panic
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Abate
Definition
to reduce in amount, degree, intensity, etc.; lessen; diminish
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Austere
Definition
severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding
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Bovine
Definition
Dull
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Corpulent
Definition
large or bulky of body; portly; stout; fat.
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Desecrate
Definition
to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
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Dissipate
Definition
to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
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Drivel
Definition
childish, silly, or meaningless talk or thinking; nonsense
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Ferment
Definition
agitation; unrest; excitement; commotion; tumult
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Inconsequential
Definition
No consequences
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Insurgent
Definition
a person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority, esp. a person who engages in armed resistance to a government or to the execution of its laws; rebel
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Nebulous
Definition
hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused
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Pillage
Definition
to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder
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Precipitate
Definition
to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly
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Recapitulate
Definition
to review by a brief summary, as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize.
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Restitution
Definition
reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation for loss, damage, or injury caused; indemnification.
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Sleazy
Definition
contemptibly low, mean, or disreputabl
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Stalwart
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strongly and stoutly built; sturdy and robust.
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Umbrage
Definition
offense; annoyance; displeasure
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