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Esoteric- guile
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English
11th Grade
03/03/2009

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Esoteric
Definition
hard to understand; understood by only a select few; peculiar
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Espouse
Definition
to support; to advocate
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Ethereal
Definition
heavenly; as light and insubstantial as a gas or ether
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Euphemism
Definition
a pleasant or inoffensive expression used in place of an unpleasant or offensive one
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Evanescent
Definition
fleeting; vanishing; happening for only the briefest period
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Exacerbate
Definition
to make worse
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Exacting
Definition
extremely demanding; difficult; requiring great skill or care
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Exalt
Definition
to raise high; to glorify
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Exasperate
Definition
to annoy thoroughly; to make very angry; to try the patience of
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Exemplify
Definition
to illustrate by example; to serve as a good example
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Exhaustive
Definition
thorough; rigorous; complete; painstaking
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Exhort
Definition
to urge strongly; to give serious warning to
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Exigency
Definition
an emergency; an urgency
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Existential
Definition
having to do with existence; having to do with the body of though called existentialism, which basically hold that human beings are responsible for their own actions
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Exonerate
Definition
to free completely from blame; to exculpate
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Expatriate
Definition
to throw out of his or her native land; to move away from one's native land; to emigrate
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Expedient
Definition
providing an immediate advantage; serving one's immediate self-interest; practival
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Expedite
Definition
to speed up or ease the progress of
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Explicit
Definition
clearly and directly expressed
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Extol
Definition
to praise highly; to laud
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Extraneous
Definition
unnecessary; irrelevant; extra
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Extraneous
Definition
unnecessary; irrelevant; extra
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Extrapolate
Definition
to project or deduce from something known; to infer
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Extricate
Definition
to free from difficulty
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Extrovert
Definition
an open, out-going person; a person whose attention is focused on others rather than himself or herself
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Exult
Definition
to rejoice; to celebrate
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Fabrication
Definition
a lie; something made up
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Facetious
Definition
humorous; not serious; clumsily humorous
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Facile
Definition
fluent; skillful in a superficial way; easy
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Faction
Definition
a group, usually a small part of a larger group, united around some cause; disagreement within an organization
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Farcical
Definition
absurd; ludicrous
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Fastidious
Definition
meticulous; demanding; finicking
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Fatalist
Definition
someone who believes the future events are already determined and that humans are powerless to change them
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Fatuous
Definition
foolish; silly; idiotic
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Fauna
Definition
animals
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Fecund
Definition
fertile; productive
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Felicity
Definition
happiness; skillfulness, especially at expressing things; adaptness
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Fervor
Definition
great warmth or earnestness; ardor; zeal
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Fetter
Definition
to restrain; to hamper
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Fidelity
Definition
faithfulness; loyalty
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Figurative
Definition
based on figures of speech; expressing something in terms usually used for something else; metaphorical
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Finesse
Definition
skillful maneuvering; subtlety; craftiness
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Flagrant
Definition
glaringly bad; notorious; scandelous
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Flaunt
Definition
to show off; to display ostentatiously
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Flout
Definition
to disregard somthing out of disrespect
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Foible
Definition
a minor character flaw
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Foment
Definition
to stir up; to instigate
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Forbear
Definition
to refrain from; to abstain
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Forgo
Definition
to do without; to forbear
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Forsake
Definition
to abandon; to renounce; to relinquish
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Fortuitous
Definition
accidental; occurring by chance
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Founder
Definition
to fail; to collapse; to escape
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Fraternal
Definition
like brothers
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Frenetic
Definition
frantic; frenzied
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Frugal
Definition
economical; penny-pinching
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Furtive
Definition
secretive; sly
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Futile
Definition
useless; hopeless
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Garrulous
Definition
talkative; chatty
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gauche
Definition
unskillful; akward; maladroit
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Genre
Definition
a type or category, especially of art or writing
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Genteel
Definition
refined; polite; aristocratic;affecting; refinement
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Gesticulate
Definition
to make gestures, especially when speaking or in place of speaking
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Glut
Definition
surplus; an overabundance
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Grandiloquent
Definition
pompous; using a lot of big fancy words in an attempt to sound impressive
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Grandiose
Definition
absurdly exaggerated
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Gratuitous
Definition
given freely (said of something bad); unprovoked; uncalled for
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Gravity
Definition
seriousness
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Gregarious
Definition
sociable; enjoying the company of others
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Guile
Definition
cunning duplicity; artfulness
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Root: esce
Definition
becoming
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Root: eu
Definition
good, well
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Root; extra
Definition
outside of, beyond
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Root: Fab/fam
Definition
speak
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Root: fac/fic/fig/fait/feit/fy
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to do, to make
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Root: ferv
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to boil, to bubble, to burn
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Root: fid
Definition
faith, trust
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Root: flag/flam
Definition
to burn
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Root: fore
Definition
before
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Root: fort
Definition
chance
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Root: grand
Definition
big
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Root: grav/griev
Definition
heavy; serious
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Root: grat
Definition
pleasing
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Root: greg
Definition
herd
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