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11th Grade
10/13/2009

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Adept
Definition
Very Skilled, able, or proficient
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Advocate (n.)
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On who acts in support or defense of a person or a cause
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Aesthetic
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Pertaining to what is considered beautiful or tasteful
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Anachronism
Definition
Some one or thing out of its correct or chronological order
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Anecdote (n.)
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A short account of an interesting or humerous, often biographical incedent
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Apprehensive (adj.)
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Uneasy, anxious, or fearful about the future; quick to understand or learn
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Arrogance (n.)
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An offensive display of self-inportance or superiority; overbearing pride; haughtiness
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Boorish (adj.)
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Resembling or characteristic of a boor; crude, coarse, and clumsy in behavior; churlish, oafish, insensitive
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Brevity
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The quality of being breif in time or duration; consise expression
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Cathartic (adj.)
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Delevering catharsis; emotionally purging
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Censure (v.)
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To express disapproval in a strong or vehement fashion; to chritisize, blame, or reprimand
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Cite (v.)
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To quote as authority or example; to mention in support or confirmation
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Commendable (adj.)
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Worthy of great praise or approval
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Conciliatory (adj.)
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Attempting to regain good will through pleasentness; overcoming hostility; willing to make concessions; accomodating; appeasing
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Consenses (n.)
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Majority of opinion amoung a group; general agreement or accord
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Consummate (adj.)
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Complete or perfect in every respect; supremely skilled
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Cursory (adj.)
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Preformed hastily and without attention to detail; superficial
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Defiant (adj.)
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Boldly resisting athority or an opposing force; challenging
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Depict (v.)
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To represent or characterize in words, pictures, or sculpture
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Deride (vb.)
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To laugh at in scorn or treat with contempt; to ridicule
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Disparage (v.)
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To speak of with disrespect; to belittle or depreciate
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Disparity (n.)
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lack of equlaity or similarity; difference
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Electic (adj.)
Definition
Selecting, employing, or comprimising individuale elements from a wide variety of sources.
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Elaborate (adj.)
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Planned or execcuted with great care and attention; painstaking
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Eloquent (adj.)
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Characterized by clear, powerful, and persuasive speech
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Elucidate (v.)
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To make lucid or clear; to explain
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Embody
Definition
To represent in bodily, material, or tangebile form
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Equitable (adj.)
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Characterized by firmness and imparciality; just or resonable
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Erratic (adj.)
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Having no fixed or regular course; wandering lacking consistency, or regularity; eccentric
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Ethical (adj.)
Definition
Being in accordance with rules or standards for right conduct or practice; adhering to moral priciples
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Ememplary (adj.)
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Worthy of imitation; estimable;praiseworthy
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Felicitious (adj.)
Definition
Well-suited for the occasion, appropriate; marked by good fortune
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Florid (adj.)
Definition
Reddish or rosey; excessively ornate or flowery
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Foster (v.)
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To promote the growth or developement of; culitivate; nurture
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Holistic (adj.)
Definition
Emphsising the importance of the whole and the interdependance of parts, as opposed to sepperation into parts
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Idiosyncracy (n.)
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A habit, mannerism, or characteristic that is pericular to an individual
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Ineffable
Definition
Defying expression or description; inexpressable
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Intemperate (adj.)
Definition
Given to or characterized by excessive indulgence, not moderate or restrained
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Irreverent (adj.)
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Showing lack of due respect; impertinent; satirical.
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Lament (v.)
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To feel or express greif or regret; to mourn for.
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Laudatory (adj.)
Definition
Containing or expressing praise.
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Lucid (adj.)
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Clear; rational; sane; easily understood
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Magnanimous (adj.)
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generous in forgiving; unselfish; free of resentment or vindictiveness
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Mock
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To ridicule; to imitate or mimic; to defy.
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Mundane (adj.)
Definition
Common or ordinary; pertaining to the world, secular.
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Naive (adj.)
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Unaffected; unsophisticated; inexpirienced; having an unaffected style.
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Nefarious (adj.)
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Wicked; infamous; villainous
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Nostalgia (n.)
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A longing for a former place or time; something that displays nostalgia
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Novel (adj.)
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New, Diffferent
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Obstinite (adj.)
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Stubborn; inflexible; not easily overcome
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Partisan (adj.)
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Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause.
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Pessimistic (adj.)
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Gloomy, having a negative outlook.
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Pragmatic (adj.)
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Practical; dealing with acctual facts or occourances
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Prosiac (adj.)
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Commonplace; dull; lacking in imagination
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Quell (v.)
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To supress; to put an end; to pacify
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Refute (v.)
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To prove to be false; to prove a person to be in error; to deny
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Rehtorical (adj.)
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Used for style or effect only; having to do with rhetoric; bombastic.
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Sanguine (adj.)
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Optimistic, hopeful or confident; reddish; bloody
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Solicitous (adj.)
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Anxious or concerned; careful; eager
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Somber (adj.)
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Dark; dimly lit; gloomy or depressing.
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Spectulate (v.)
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To think or reflect; to conjecture; to engage in a risky business practice in the exprectation of a quick or large profit.
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Superflous (adj.)
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More than sufficient; extra; unessesary or needless
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Tenacious (adj.)
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Persistent or stubborn; holdin fast; holding together; sticky or adheasive
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Venerate (v.)
Definition
to regard or treat with reverence.
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Vindicate (v.)
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To clear of accusation or suspicion; to defend, maintain, or avenge.
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Zealous (adj.)
Definition
Filled with or motivated by zeal; enthusiastic
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