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Esoteric Vocab Unit 48
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General Vocab
11th Grade
07/23/2011

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Opprobrious
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Disgraceful, shameful, slanderous
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Specious
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Superficially plausible but actually wrong; False
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Accolade
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An expression of praise or admiration; Honor
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Conductive
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Helpful
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Entente
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Friendly alliance, agreement
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Belie
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Disguise, contradict, misrepresent
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Tyro
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A beginner or novice; Neophyte
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Plaintive
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Sounding sad, mournful, expressing sorrow
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Jocose
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Playful, Humorous
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Vicissitude
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Change of circumstances or fortune (typically unpleasant); Fluctuation
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Explicit
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Stated clearly, detailed; (Leaving no room for confusion or doubt)
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Covet
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Yearn to posses or have something; desire, want
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