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WOODS VOCAB
Week 9
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English
11th Grade
04/19/2007

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irascible
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prone to outsbursts of anger, easily angered
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concupiscent
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sexual desire, lust, sensuality
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sesquipedalian
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long and ponderous, given to using long words; many syllables
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dudgeon
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a sullen, angry or indignant humor
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captious
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marked by a disposition to find fault and make petty criticisms; calculated to confuse or entangle in an argument
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pungent
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penetrating, biting, caustic
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entropy
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measure of capacity of a system to undergo spontaneous change; chaos, randomness
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excoriate
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abrade; chafe; denounce severely
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eschew
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to take care to avoid; shun
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amalgam
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any combination or mixture of diverse elements
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simian
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resembling a monkey or ape
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derivative
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copied or adapted from others
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