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Vocabulary 11
15 vocab words
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English
11th Grade
02/19/2009

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Rustic
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characteristic of or resembling country people; rural; plain
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Salutary
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promoting health; producing a beneficial effect

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sapient
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sage; discerning; wise
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sardonic
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bitter; mocking
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secular
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relating to the worldly or temporal; not bout by monastic vows or rules
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sensibility
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refined sensitiveness in emotion and taste, especially toward the pathetic
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sententious
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moralistic in expression; aphoristic; given to excessive moralizing
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sentimental
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marked or governed by feeling or sensibility, rather than reason or thought
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sinuous
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winding; serpentine in form
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skeptical
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doubting; uncertain
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sloth
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lazy; indolent
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smug
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highly self satisfied; complacent
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Spartan

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marked by strict self-discipline and avoidance of comfort and luxury
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stalwart
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stout; sturdy; valiant; strong
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stasis
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slowing or stopping the flow of bodily fluids; stagnation
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