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VOCABULARY WORDS MSHALVERSON3
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English
9th Grade
12/29/2008

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teeming
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swarming; abounding; full of
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pinion
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to restrain by binding the arms or the wings of
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pilfer
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to steal (a small amount or item)
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unfathomable
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incapable of being stopped or persuaded
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formidable
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arousing, fear, dread or alarm; difficult to defeat
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pensive
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musingly or dreamily thoughtful; suggestive of sad thoughtfulness melancholy
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venerable
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respectable due to age, rank
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acquiesce
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to passively agree pr comply; to give in or yield
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insidious
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having a gradual cumulative negative effect
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tacit
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a silent understanding
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temerity
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reckless or daring, brashness or heatless disregard for danger
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stolidly
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with little or no emotion
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furtive
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sly, stealthy, secretive or shifty
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sordid
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filthy, dirty
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squalid
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having a dirty or wretched appearance
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assuage
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to ease, to make less painful, or burdensome
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arid
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dry, lifeless and dull
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mollify
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to lessen the anger of, to calm down
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expunge
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to erase or strike out
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undulate
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to move in form of waves
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