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Vocabulary
Units 7 - 10
36
English
12th Grade
11/15/2011

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VICT (VINC)

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"Conquer", "Show conclusively"

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Convict

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(V) Prove guilty; show conclusively to be guilty

 

(N) Person serving a prison sentence

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Conviction

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(N) 1. State of having been judged guilty of an offense 

 

2. Strong belief

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Convince

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(V) Persuade or show conclusively be argument or proof

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Evict

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(V) 1. Expel by legal process, as to evict a tenent 

 

2. Oust

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Evince

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(V) Show clearly; disclose

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Invincible

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(Adj) Incapable of being conquered 

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Vanquish 

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(V) Overcome in battle; conquer

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Victor

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(N) Winner; conqueror

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FRACT (FRAG)

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"Break"

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Fraction

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(N) One or more of the equal parts of a whole; fragment

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Fractious

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(Adj) Apt to break out into a passion; cross; irritable (Ant. Peaceable)

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Fracture

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(N) 1. Break or crack

 

2. Breaking of a bone

 

(V) To break, to crack

 

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Fragile 

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(Adj) easily broken; frail; delicate (ant. tough; durable)

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Fragment

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(N) Part broken off 

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Infraction

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(N) Act of breaking; breach; violation, as in an infraction of a law

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Refract

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(V) Bend (literally "break back") a ray of light, a heat of sound wave, etc.

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Refractory

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(adj) resisting; intractable; hard to manage, as a refractory mule (Ant. malleable, tractable, adabable) (Syn- Stubborn)

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OMNI

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"all" "every" "everywhere"

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Omnibus

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(Adj) Covering many things at once as an omnibus bill 

(N) 1. Bus (Double decker bus)

 

2. Book Containing a variety of works by one author, as a Hemingway omnibus

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Omnifarious 

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(adj) OF all varieties, forms, or kinds

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Omnific

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(Adj) all - creating

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Omnipotent 

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(adj) Unlimited in power; almighty

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Omniscient

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(Adj) Knowing everything

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Omnivorous

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(Adj) 1. Eating everything, both plant and animal substances

 

2. Avidly taking in everything, as an omnivorous reader

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FLECT (FLEX)

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"Bend"

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Deflect

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(V) turn ("bend") aside

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Flex

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(V) Bend, as to flex a limb

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Flexible

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(adj) pliable ("capable of being bent"); not rigid; tractable

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Flexor

 

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(N) Muscle that serves to bend a limb

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Genuflect

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(V) Bend the knee; touch the right knee to ground as in worship

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Inflection

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(N) Change ("bend") in the pitch or tone of a persons voice

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Inflexibility 

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(N) Rigidity; firmness 

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Reflect

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(V) 1. Throw ("Bend") back light, as from a prism

 

2. Think, ponder

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Reflex 

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(N) Involuntary response ("bending back") to a stimulus; for example, sneezing is a reflex.

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