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10th Grade
06/16/2008
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Castigate
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To punish by criticizing sharply
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Colloquial
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Charecterized by informal language
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Epitaph
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The words carved on a tombstone in memory of the deceased
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exodus
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a mass departure
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Inter
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To put in a grave
To bury
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Lacerate
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To tear or cut roughly
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Largesse
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The act of giving generously
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Obituary
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A notice of someones death
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Omnivorous
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Eating all kinds of food
Taking in everything avaliable
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Permeate
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To spread throughout
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Rendition
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An interpertation or translation
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Resurgence
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A rising again to life use acceptance or promminence
A revival
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Stereotype
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A generalization that is used to charecterize a person without knowing individual differences
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Stipend
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A regular and fixed amount of pay for work done or to help cover living or work expenses
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Subservient
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Serving or acting in a subordinate manner
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Adjacent
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Near or next to
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Beset
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To surround or to attack repeatadly
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Cede
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To give up or transfer expecially by treaty or formal agreement
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Circuitous
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Roundabout
Indirect
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Desultory
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Procedding or carried out in an aimless or random way
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Galvanize
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To excite or arouse action
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Implement
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A tool or instrument
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Inconsequential
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Lacking importance or worth
unable to make an impact
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magnitude
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Greatness of size, power or influence
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Materialze
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To become real or actual
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Muster
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Prohibitive
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Reminisce
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Vanguard
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Visionary
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Cautionary
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COnstrain
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Flotilla
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Gossamer
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Ignominiuos
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Incur
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Liquidate
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Magnate
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Misnomer
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Onerous
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Pandemonium
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Quixotic
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Tenacious
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Vestige
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Zephyr
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Attest
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Axiom
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Churlish
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Concoct
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Derivative
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Differentiate
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Disparge
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Dissipate
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Esoteric
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Olfactory
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Plethora
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Refurbish
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Secrete
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Vagary
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Volatile
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Agarian
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Burgeon
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Cataclysm
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Culinary
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Denigrate
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Gourmet
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Grandiloquent
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Hyrbid
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Manifold
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Palatable
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Panacea
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Plebian
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Scourge
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Stalemate
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Temperate
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Aftermath
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Aphorism
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Catharsis
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Cohort
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Culpable
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Diabolical
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Enormity
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Gibe
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Innocuous
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Neccisitate
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Odyssey
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Partisan
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Posterity
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Premeditated
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Scurrilous
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