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VOW 9-12
vocab period 7
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General Vocab
12th Grade
01/16/2006
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admonish
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to caution/warn
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beget
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to produce
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cantankerous
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uncooperative
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dearth
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lack of
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effluvia
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waste
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pique
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provoke
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raze
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demolish
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seminal
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creative/influential
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tremulous
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short-lived
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untoward
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difficult to handle
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panegyrize
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pay tribute to
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scurrilous
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profane/vulgar
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boondaoggle
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unnecessary/wasteful project
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fugacious
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passing away quickly
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abstruse
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difficult to understand
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belabor
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to discuss repeatedly
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arrogate
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to claim without justification
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carp
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to nag/complain
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largess
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generousity
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firkin
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small wooden container/barrel
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avarice
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greed
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bemused
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confused
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choleric
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hot tempered
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digress
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stray away
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hapless
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unlucky
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palindrome
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word or phrase that is the same backwards and forwards
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thaumaturgy
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act of performing something wonderful/magic
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plethora
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plenty, being overfull, excess
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pignacious
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inclined to fight
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wunderkind
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child prodigy
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infallible
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can't do wrong-always perfect
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iniquitous
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vicious
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pan
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leaf
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panoply
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armor
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stylobate
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support/foundation
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riprap
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Tower/wall of concrete
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costa
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vein in an insect wing
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deism
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transcendentalism
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reisque
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risky
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subclavian
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surgery on clavicle
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