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vocab
final review
50
English
9th Grade
01/08/2013

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Facetious
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Humorous; Playfully joking
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Ostentations
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Meant to impress others; Flashy
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Optimum
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Best possible; Most favorable; Most desirable
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Detriment
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Something that cuases damage, Harm, or Loss
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Vicarious
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Experienced trough the imagination; not experienced directly
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Dexterous
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Skillful in using the hand or body
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scrupulaus
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careful about moral standards; conscientious
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Gregarious
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Sociable; enjoying and seeking the company of others
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Discretion
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Good judgment or tact in actions or speaking
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Sensory
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Having to do with seeing, Hearing, Feeling,Tasting, or smelling
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Instigate
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To bring about by moving others to action; Stir up
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Rudementary
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Fundementle; Necessary to learn first
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Resilient
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Able to recover quickly from harm, Illness, or misfortune
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Collaborate
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To work together on a project; cooperate in an effort
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Zealot
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A person totally devoted to a purpose or cause
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Squelch
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To silence or suppress; Crush
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Venerate
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To respect deeply; Revere
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Despondent
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Downhearted; hopeless; overwhelmed with sadness
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Restrospect
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Reviewing the past; Considering past events
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Scoff
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To make fun of; mock; refuse to take seriously
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Juxtapose
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To place close together, especially in order to compare or contrast
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Lethargy
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A great lack of energy; inactivity due to laziness
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Ambiguous
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Able to be interupted in more than one way; not clear
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Inane
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Without sense or meaning; foolish
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Dissident
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A person opposed to established ideas or beliefs, especially in politics or religion
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Embellish
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To decorate; beautify by adding details
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Subsidize
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To support financially; provide a grant or contribution
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Squander
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To spend or use wastefully or thoughtlessly
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Inavertant
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Unintentional; accidental
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Sporadic
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Happening now and then; occasional
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Reliquish
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To surrender something; give something up
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Impetuous
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Done or acting in a hurry, with little thought; impulsive
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Maudlin
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Tearfully sentimantal; overemotional
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Berate
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To criticize or scold harshly
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Ubiquitious
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Existing or seeming to exist everywhere at the same time
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Zenith
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The highest point or condition; peak
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Estrange
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To make unsympathetic or unfriendly; alienate
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Infallible
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Not capable of error or failure; unable to make a mistake
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Euphoric
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 Overjoyed; having an intense feeling of well-being
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Regress
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To return to an earlier, generally worse, condition or behavior
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Dormant
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Inactive; alive but not actively growing as if asleep
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Disseminate
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To spread or scatter widely; distribute
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Irrevocable
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Not able to be canceled or undone; irreversable
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Proliferation
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A rapid spread or increase
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Corraborate
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To support;strengthen with further evidence; Provide proof of
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Precipitate
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To cause to happen quickly, Sudenly, or sooner than expected
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Hoist
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To lift, especially with some mechanical means, like a cable
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Charlatan
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A fake; a person who falsely claims to have some special skill or knowledge
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Diverge
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To branch off into different directions from the same starting point; to become different
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Illicit
Definition
Illegal
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