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Vocabulary Level F Units 14-15
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10th Grade
11/29/2011

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amenable
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willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive; responsive; liable to be held responsible
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berate
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to scold sharply
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carnage
Definition
large-scale slaughter or loss of life
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credulous
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too ready to believe, easily deceived
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criterion
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a rule, test; a standard for judgment or evaluation
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deplete
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to use up as a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly
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expatiate
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to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail; to move about freely
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extraneous
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coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant
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inception
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the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution, etc.
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infirmity
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a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral, etc.)
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jejune
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lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile
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obdurate
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stubborn, unyielding
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potpourri
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a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture; petals mixed with spices for scent
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precocious
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showing unusually early development (especially in talents and mental capacity)
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sadistic
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delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel
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sententious
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self-rightous, characterized by moralizing; given to use or maxims or adages; saying much in few words, pithy
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supplicate
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to beg earnestly and humbly
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surfeit
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(adj)an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust; (v) to feed or supply with anything to excess
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tortuous
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winding, twisted, crooked; high involved, complex; devious
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turgid
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swollen, bloated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive in language
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adamant
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firm in purpose or opinion, unyielding, obdurate, implacable, inflexible
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brouhaha
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a confused hodgepodge of sounds, hubub
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bulwark
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strong defense or protection
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choleric
Definition
easily made angry, bad tempered
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cloy
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to spoil or destroy an appetite by too much indulgence, to glut
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curtail
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to cut short, halt
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deference
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courteous yielding to the wishes and ideas of another person, respect to superior
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definitive
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conclusive, final
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demeanor
Definition
the way a person behaves, conduct
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enigmatic
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puzzling, perplexing, not easliy understood
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impromptu
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without preparation, offhand, spontaneous
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mawkish
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excessively and objectionably sentimental
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mollify
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to soften, make gentle, pacify, to calm
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onus
Definition
something that is heavy or burdensome, stigma/blame
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presentiment
Definition
a vague sense of approaching misfortune
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profligate
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given over to dissipation and self-indulgence, immoral, prodigal
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remit
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to send or hand in, to cancel, forgive, pay, absolve
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requisite
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needed, necessary, regarded as essential or indispensable
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sartorial
Definition
of or pertaining to a tailor or his work, having to do with clothes or dress(mainly men's)
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thwart
Definition
to oppose successfully, to prevent, frustrate, foil, baffle
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