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Wordly Wise Chapter 8
Vocabulary words from Chapter 8
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12th Grade
02/04/2013
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apostate
 Definition
person who abandons his or her faith
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bullion
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precious metals in bulk form
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debilitated
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enfeebled
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flagellate
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whip
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hiatus
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lapse of time
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ingenuous
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naive
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invidious
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designed to create ill will
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miscarry
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fail to carry a baby to it's full term, went awry
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orison
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prayer
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peripatetic
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done while traveling
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pommel
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protuberance on the front of a saddle, beat
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prorogue
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end a session of
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rhapsodize
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speak in an ecstatic manner
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tantamount
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equivalent
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titular
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in name only
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anemia
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insufficient red corpuscles in the blood
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apothegm
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maxim
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ciliated
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having minute hairs
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diurnal
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active in the daytime, daily
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gestation
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the carrying of young in the womb, development in the mind of the author
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indigent
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poor
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insular
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island, narrow-minded
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kleptomaniac
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person with an obsession to steal
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neologism
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newly-coined word
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parricide
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murdering one's parents
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permeable
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porous
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precept
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rule of conduct
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puerile
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childishly immature
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sententious
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pithy, given to trite moralizing
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timpani
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kettledrums
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toupee
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partial wig
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bellicose
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warlike
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contentious
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quarrelsome
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ebullient
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bubbling with enthusiasm
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grapnel
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grappling hook
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infinitesimal
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immeasurably small
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intestate
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having left no will
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libretto
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text of a musical work
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opalescent
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of changing colors
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pendent
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hanging
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plenary
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attended by all members, complete
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propitiate
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appease
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rant
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talk wildly
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sequester
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seclude, lawfully seize
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tincture
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trace, alcohol solution, tinge with color
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votary
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person bound by religious vows, addict
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