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Week 2
Vocab Sheet 2 from RVHS
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English
11th Grade
08/23/2011

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Consummate
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extremely skillful, complete, perfect
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Categorical
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unconditional, absolute, without exception
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Malaise
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sense of lethargy and unease, a feeling of being run down, a feeling of being depressed
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Awry
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off course, not right
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Platitude
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trite, overused saying, a cliche usually offered as advice or wisbom
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Destitute
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extremely poor, impoverished, lacking in what is required for basic sustenance
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Extrovert
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outgoing, gregarious person
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Ephemeral
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short lived, fleeting
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Callow
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immature, unsophisticated due to youthfulness, inexperienced
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Malleable
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easy to shape or mold
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Legacy
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refers to something inherited or passed down
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Discriminate
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make a distinction
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Monlithic
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expresses both the idea of massiveness and the idea of being all of one piece
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Abject
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hopeless, wretched, miserable
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Vitriolic
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caustic, full of bitterness, extremely nasty
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Beset
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to be besieged, surrounded on all sides, attacked by
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Renounce (something)
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to give it up, to deny, forsake it
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Matriculate
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to enroll, especially into a college or university
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Convival
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festive, friendly, good natured, jovial
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Venerate
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to honor, to deeply respect, to treat with reverence, as though sacred
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Contiguous
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adjoining, touching
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Arbitary
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unfair, determined by impulse or individual will, having no particualr rhyme or reason
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Pristine
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pure, unspoiled, uncorrupted, immaculately clean
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Succinct
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concise, short, to the point, brief
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Farcical
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absurd, ridiculous, having the characteristics of a farce
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