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Vocabulary List #3
Green Literature
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English
9th Grade
05/08/2007

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ethereal
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(adj) light, airy, or tenuous
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deliberately
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(adj) carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional
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resignation
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(n) submission
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marrow
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(n) the inner most or most essential part
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swath
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(n) a strip, belt, or long and relatively narrow extent of anything
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sublime
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(adj) impressing the mind with a sense of grandeur or power; inspiring awe, veneration
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peturbation
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(n) an unhappy and worried mental state
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delusion
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(n) a false belief of opinion
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alluvion
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(n) an overflow; flood
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freshet
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(n) sudden rise in the level of a stream, or a flood, caused by heavy rains or rapid melting
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gauge
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(v) to appraise, estimate, measure, or judge
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sham
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(n) something false of empty that is purpoted to be genuine
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cimeter/scimitar
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(n) a curved, single-edged sword
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cleave
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(v) to cut off; sever
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discern
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(v) to distinguish mentally; recognize as distinct or different;
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rift
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(n) an opening made by splitting, cleaving
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faculty
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(n) an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action
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incessant
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(adj) continuing without interruption; ceaseless; unending
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mince
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(v) to cut of chop into very small pieces; to soften, moderate, or weaken (one's words), esp. for the sake of decorum or courtesy
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indolence
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(n) habitual laziness; sloth
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reprove
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(v) to criticize or correct
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