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AQWF Vocab
10th Grade English
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Literature
10th Grade
12/12/2010

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Acrid
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(adj.) sharp or biting, bitterly pungent; caustic
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Aspirant
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(noun) one who seeks or desires a career, advancement, status, etc.
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Attribute
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(noun) something attributed as belonging to a a person, thing, group, etc.; a quality, character, characteristic, or property
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Baseness
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(adj.) morally low; without estimable personal qualities; dishonorable; mean spirited; selfish; cowardly
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Barrack
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(noun) a building used for lodging soldiers, usually a fort or camp
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Billet
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(noun) a building used for soldiers to live in, usually a fort or camp
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Canteen
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(noun) a general store and cafeteria at a military base
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Ceaselessly
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(adv.) without stop or pause; unending; incessant; continual, never ending
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Confound
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(adj) to be confused
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Cunning
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(noun) skill employed in a shrewd or sly manner, as in deceiving; craftiness; guile
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Derive
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(verb) to receive or obtain from a source or origin
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Disgruntled
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(adj.) in bad humor; discontented
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Generation
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(noun) all the people born in the same time period
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Grievous
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(adj.) characterized by severe suffering or sorrow, serious or grave
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Espirit de corps
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(noun) group spirit, comradeship
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Indigent
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(adj.) lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished
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Infuriate
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(verb) to fill with wild, fierce anger; make furious; enrage
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Munitions
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(noun) materials used in war, especially weapons and ammunition
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Mutter
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(verb int.) to speak indistinctly with the lips partly closed, mumble; murmur
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Ostracize
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(verb) to banish or exclude from a group; shun
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Palatial
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(adj.) of like or fit for a palace; magnificent
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Patronizing
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(adj.) offensively condescending
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Pettifogging
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(adj.) insignificant; petty
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Protrude
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(verb) to thrust forward, to project
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Quartermaster
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(noun) an officer who has charge of providing quarters, clothing, fuel, and transportation, etc. for troops
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Queue
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(noun) a file or line, esp. of people waiting their turn
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Retaliate
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(verb) to pay back wrong, injury, etc; return like for like, usually to return evil for evil
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Reminiscence
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(noun) remembering; recalling past persons, events, etc
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Renunciation
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(noun) a give up of a right, title, possession, etc; renouncing
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Requisition
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(verb) to demand or take, as by authority, for military purposes, public needs, etc.
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Reverberation
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(noun) echo back; an echo
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Satchel
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(noun) a small bag, sometimes with a shoulder strap
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Scat
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(verb) to go off hastily
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Uncompromising
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(adj.) unyielding, firm, inflexible
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Voracity
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(noun) a craving or consumption of large quantities of food
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Annihilation
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(noun) the act of complete destruction
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Apparition
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(noun) a ghost or ghostlike image of a [erspm
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Automaton
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(noun) a person or animal who acts in a monotonous, routine manner, without active intelligence
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Bewilder
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(verb) to completely confuse, perplex
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Claustrophobia
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(noun) an abnormal fear of enclosed spaces
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Cleave
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(verb) to cut or divide
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Congeal
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(verb) to change from a liquid to a solid by freezing; coagulate, thicken
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Convulse
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(verb) to shake violently
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Debauch
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(verb) to corrupt or tarnish the morality of individual(s) by leading away from duty, virtue or morality; corrupt or seduce
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Delirium
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(noun) a mental disturbance marked by confusion, disordered speech, and hallucinations
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Demolish
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(verb) to destroy, pull or tear down; to ruin
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Devour
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(verb) to consume greedily and eagerly; eat very hungrily
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Disconcert
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(verb) to throw into disorder or confusion
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Glower
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(verb) to have an angry or sullen look on one's face; scowl
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Hemorrhage
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(noun) heavy discharge of blood esp. from a blood vessel that has been damaged
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Impinge
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(verb) to make an impression; have an effect or impact, esp. a negative one
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Inducement
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(noun) something that influences or persuades; incentive; act of influencing
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Insubordination
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(noun) disobedience to authority
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Laconically
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(adv.) using few words; expressing much in few words; concise or right to the point
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Malicious
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(adj.) intending or indended to harm
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Onslaught
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(noun) a vigorous onset, assault, or attack
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Parapet
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(noun) a protective wall or earth defense along the top of a trench or other place of concealment for troops
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Pallid
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(adj.) lacking in color or liveliness
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Precipitous
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(adj.) very high or steep; hasty rash; rushing headlong, very rapid
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Predominant
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(adj.) having more power, authority; superior; more noticeable, prevailing
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Repress
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(verb) to intentionally hold back in an act or contraint
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Quiver
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(verb) to shake with a slight trembling motion; tremble
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Scrounge
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(verb) to borrow with no intention of returning; seek to obtain at the expense or through the generosity of others by stealth
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Scutter
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(verb) an informal word for scurry, to hustle or move along
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Sullen
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(adj.) silent because of bad humor or anger; showing bad humor or anger; gloomy; badtempered and sulky
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Stupor
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(noun) complete or partial loss of consciousness
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Tedious
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(adj.) long or tiresome
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Tremulous
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(adj.) easily shaken or nervous
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Unattainable
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(adj.) not achievable or accomplishable
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Ventilate
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(verb) to provide fresh air to a space and replace used or contaminated air
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Wrathfully
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(adv.) irately or indicative or anger or fury
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Aberration
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(noun) a state of abnormality, lapse of a healthy mental state
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Anemic
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(adj.) lacking power, vigor, vitality, or colorfulness; listless, weak
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Appraise
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(verb) to determine the worth of
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Armistice
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(noun) a formal agreement between enemies to stop fighting a war
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Barrage
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9Noun) a heavy barrier of artillery fire to protect one's own advancing or retreating troops or to stop the advance of enemy troops
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Blanche
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(verb) to cause to become pale
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Chloroform
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(noun) a colorless nonflammable but volatile liquid, used formerly as an anesthetic
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Commissariat
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(noun) the department of an army charged with supplying provisions
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Compensation
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(noun) something given or received as an equivalent for services, injury, debt, loss, suffering, or the like
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Concussion
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(noun) injury to the brain caused by a blow, fall or the like; usually resulting in loss of consciousness
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Condemnation
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(noun) a public statement in which someone criticizes someone or something severely
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Convalescent
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(noun) a person recovering from an illness, injury, or operation
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Destitute
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(adj.) without means of subsistence; lacking food, clothing, and shelter
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Despicable
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(adj.) deserving to be despised, contempible
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Devastation
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(noun) the state of being decayed or destroyed; desolation
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Differentiate
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(verb) to see or show a difference between things
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Disconcert
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(verb) to make someone feel worried, confused, or surprised
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Divination
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(noun) the art or act of foretelling the future by non-rational methods
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Dysentery
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(noun) an infectious disease marked by inflammation and ulceration of the lower part of the bowels, with diarrhea that becomes mucous and hemorrhagic
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Emaciate
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(verb) to grow weak or thin and waste away physically
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Entanglement
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(noun) a complicated relationship; the process of becoming tangled
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Evacuate
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(verb) to leave empty; withdraw from
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Fastidious
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(adj.) hard to please; caring much about small details
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Evacuate
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(verb) to leave empty; withdraw from
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Fastidious
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(adj.) hard to please; caring much about small details
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Fortnight
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(noun) a period of two weeks
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Insensate
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(adj.) lifeless, inanimate, not possessing sensation or understanding
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Irresolute
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(adj.) doubtful; unsure of how to act or proceed
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Insensate
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(adj.) lifeless, inanimate, not possessing sensation or understanding
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Irresolute
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(adj.) doubtful; unsure of how to act or proceed
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Nauseate
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(verb) to affect with nausea; sicken
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Oblique
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(adj.) diverging from a given straight line or course; slanting or sloping, especially in direction; nether parallel nor perpendicular
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Opalescent
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(adj.) having a milky iridescence
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Quake
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(verb) to shake or tremble from cold, weakness, fear, anger, or the like
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Ration
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(noun) a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors
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Tunic
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(noun) a coat worn as part of a military or other uniform
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Skirmish
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(noun) a fight between two parties of soldiers, especially one that is away from the main fighting in a war
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Slaughter
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(noun) the indiscriminate or brutal killing of large numbers of people, as in war; massacre
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Surreptitious
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(adj.) obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized
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Superfluous
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(adj.) unnecessary or needless, more than is sufficient or required; excessive
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