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Vocabulary 1
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English
10th Grade
01/25/2011

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Insinuate
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Verb - to bring or introduce into a position or relation by indirect or artful methods
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Billet
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Noun - a place assigned, as a bunk, berth, or the like, to a member of a ship's crew.
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Rescind
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Verb - to abrogate; annul; revoke; repeal, to invalidate by a later action or a higher authority.
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Surreptitious
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Adjective - obtained, done, made,by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine
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Irrevocably
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Adjective -not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable.
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Hermetically
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Adverb - so as to be airtight, hidden or protected from the outside world.
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Abyss
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Noun - a deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity,anything profound, unfathomable, or infinite.
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Tumult
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Noun - violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob or uproar.
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Notorious
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Adjective - widely and unfavorably known, publicly or generally known, as for a particular trait.
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Interspersed
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Verb - to scatter here and there or place at intervals among other things.
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Lucidity
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Adjective - easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible.
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Harangued
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Noun - a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack. diatribe, a long, passionate, and vehement speech.
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Poignant
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Adjective - keenly distressing to the feelings, keen or strong in mental appeal.
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Wizened
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Adjective - withered; shriveled.
Verb - dry up.
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Altruistic
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Adjective - unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others
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Cynical
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Adjective - distrusting or disparaging the motives of others, bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic.
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Dissipated
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Adjective- indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure; intemperate; dissolute.
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Imprudent
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Adjective - lacking discretion, incautious,and rash.
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Sabotage
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Noun - any underhand interference with production, work,in a plant, factory,as by enemy agents during wartime or by employees during a trade dispute.
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Untenable
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Adjective - incapable of being defended, as an argument, thesis, indefensible.
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Emaciated
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Verb - to make abnormally lean or thin by a gradual wasting away of flesh.
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Emaciated
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Verb - to make abnormally lean or thin by a gradual wasting away of flesh.
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Apathy
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Noun - absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement, lack of interest in or concern for things that others find moving.
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Grimace
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Noun - a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain.
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Excruciating
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Adjective - extremely painful; causing intense suffering; unbearably distressing, torturing.
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Disheveled
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Adjective - hanging loosely, unkempt, untidy, disarranged.
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