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Vocabulary words from Chapter 10.
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11th Grade
04/08/2012
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aggregate
 Definition
total amount
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clement
 Definition
mild, mercy
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congeal
 Definition
thicken, become solid
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defect
 Definition
fault, switch sides
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disseminate
 Definition
spread
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enrapture
 Definition
delight
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febrile
 Definition
feverish
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hedonism
 Definition
belief that pleasure is the greatest good
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incarnate
 Definition
in bodily form
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intone
 Definition
say in a monotone
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necromancy
 Definition
the foretelling of the future by communication with the dead
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paraplegia
 Definition
paralysis of the lower body
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polemics
 Definition
disputes
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ramifications
 Definition
far-reaching consequences
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sophistry
 Definition
clever but misleading reasoning
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amity
 Definition
friendship
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cohort
 Definition
company of soldiers, follower
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contingent
 Definition
group comprising part of a larger group, conditional, possibility
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desecrate
 Definition
violate the sacredness of
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distrait
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inattentive
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epicure
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person with highly-cultivated tastes
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friable
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easily-crumbled
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hibernate
 Definition
sleep during the winter
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ingot
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bar
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laudatory
 Definition
expressing praise
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mobilize
 Definition
prepare for a state of war
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obliquity
 Definition
departure from what is right
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patrician
 Definition
aristocratic
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rabid
 Definition
dangerously diseased, fanatical, extremely violent
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rapport
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a sympathetic relationship with others
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supposition
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assumption that something is true
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autocrat
 Definition
monarch with unlimited power
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commiserate
 Definition
sympathize
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defeatist
 Definition
person lacking the will to win
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disquisition
 Definition
discourse
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efficacy
 Definition
effectiveness
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excerpt
 Definition
extract
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hansome
 Definition
two-wheeled carriage
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idiosyncrasy
 Definition
personal mannerism
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infiltrate
 Definition
pass through
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metamorphosis
 Definition
change of form
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monotheism
 Definition
the belief that there is only one God
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obsidian
 Definition
glasslike volcanic rock
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patronize
 Definition
shop regularly at, act condescendingly toward
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raffish
 Definition
somewhat disreputable
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retract
 Definition
withdraw
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toreador
 Definition
bullfighter
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