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Vocabulary List One
Native American Oral Traditions and Colonial Period
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11th Grade
04/22/2015
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Reverent (adj.)
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Showing great respect and admiration.
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Pliable (adj.)
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Flexible.
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Revel (v.)
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to enjoy intensely.
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Ephemeral (adj.)
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short-lived. fleeting.
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Chide (v.)
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to voice disapproval.
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Wrath (n.)
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vengeful anger, punishment.
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Appease (v.)
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to calm, satisfy.
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Abhor (v.)
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to hate, detest.
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Ascribe (v.)
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to assign, credit, attribute to.
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Abscond (v.)
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to sneak away and hide.
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Mitigation (n.)
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the act of making less violent; the act of alleviating.
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Recompense (v.)
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to pay for, to return in kind, requite.
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Abase (v.)
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to humiliate, degrade.
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Repine (v.)
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to express discontent; to long for something.
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Aberration (n.)
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something that differs from the norm.
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Abet (v.)
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to aid, help encourage.
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Abide (v.)
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to put up with.
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Abate (v.)
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to lessen.
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Abjure (v.)
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to reject, renounce.
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Abridge (v.)
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to cut down; shorten.
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