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11th Grade
03/31/2008

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adjudicate
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to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence
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prosaic
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commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative
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sinecure
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an office or position requiring little or no work, esp. one yielding profitable returns
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trenchant
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incisive or keen, as language or a person; caustic; cutting
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vitiate
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to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil
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atavism
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reversion to an earlier type; throwback
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cant
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insincere, esp. conventional expressions of enthusiasm for high ideals, goodness, or piety
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contiguous
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touching; in contact
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dour
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sullen; gloomy
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extenuate
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to represent (a fault, offense, etc.) as less serious
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