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Vocabulary 22
Synonyms and Antonyms + enrichment
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English
11th Grade
10/22/2012
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Condottiere
 Definition
Leader of mercenaries
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Avaricious
 Definition
Showing extreme greed for wealth
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Rapacious
 Definition
greedy
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Moot
 Definition
Debatable

To bring up for discussion
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Broach
 Definition
To poke at the topic of
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Morass
 Definition
A swamp, confused situation difficult to get out of
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Fen
 Definition
Frequently flooded area of land
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Motley
 Definition
Multicolored cloth

Multicolored
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Polychrome
 Definition
varied coloring
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Piebald
 Definition
irregular patches of colores
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Variegated
 Definition
exhibiting different colors
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Mundane
 Definition
Humdrum or everyday

worldly
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Secular
 Definition
no religious basis
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Temporal
 Definition
relating to worldly
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Myriad
 Definition
Countless
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Narcissistic
 Definition
Love for oneself
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Egomaniacal
 Definition
abnormally egotistic
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Vain
 Definition
Excessively high opinion of oneself
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Nebulous
 Definition
Hazy
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Negligible
 Definition
Too small to be significant
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Piddling
 Definition
Pathetically trivial
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Nepotism
 Definition
Unwarranted favoritism shown to relatives by someone high in office
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Nomadic
 Definition
Wandering
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Itinerant
 Definition
moving
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Migratory
 Definition
moving
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Peripatetic
 Definition
moving
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Nominal
 Definition
Existing in name only

Insignificantly small
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Titular
 Definition
figure head
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Nostalgia
 Definition
A longing to return to a past
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Yearning
 Definition
Going to the past
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Pining
 Definition
Miss and long for the return of
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Hankering
 Definition
A yearning to do something
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Novice
 Definition
A person who has entered a religious order on a probationary basis

A beginner of any kind
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Postulant
 Definition
A candidate for religious order
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Nuance
 Definition
A slight or subtle variation in meaning, expression, tone, feeling or the like
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Nicety
 Definition
Accurate or precise
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Gradation
 Definition
Series of changes
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