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Chapter 6 Vocabulary
Citizen's High Literature 1
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Literature
9th Grade
04/10/2010

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advantageous
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offering gain or profit; beneficial
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anguish
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extreme mental or physical pain or suffering; agony
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disposition
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the usual mood of a person; temperment
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distort
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to disfigure or twist out of shape; alter
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epidermis
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the surface layer covering the body of a human being or other animal or the outer layer of the tissue of a plant; skin
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figment
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something imagined, made up, or contrived
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peculiar
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1. characteristic of one group, person, or thing; distinctive

2. eccentric, particular, odd
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phantom
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something apparent to sense but with no substantial existence; apparition
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stenographer
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one who writes in shorthand or takes dictation; transcriber
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