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Vocabulary 15
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11th Grade
11/25/2008

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sagacious
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having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness (adj)
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philistine
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narrow-minded; smugly conventional (adj); a dull often priggish person guided by material rather than intellectual or aristic values (noun)
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repudiate
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to reject; to refuse; to recongnize, acknowledge or pay; to divorce or discard (verb)
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pretentious
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showy, self-important, make unjustifiable claims to excellence (adj)
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latent
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present but invisible or inactie; lying hidden and undeveloped (adj)
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diametrically
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directly opposite (adv)
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aversion
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strong or fixed dislike, a feeling of repugnance (noun)
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anomalous
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irregular, abnormal, unusual (adj)
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expunge
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to erase, to strike out (verb)
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gaunt
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haggard, thin (adj)
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