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10th Grade
01/25/2011

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Insinuate
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Verb: To suggest or to hint slightly.
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Billet
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Noun: Lodging for a soldier, and/or a private home or nonmilitary public building.
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Rescind
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Verb: To revoke or repeal.
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Surreptitious
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Adjective: To be secretive, or to act in a stealthy way.
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Irrevocably
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Adjective: Not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed.
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Hermetically
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Adverb: To be airtight, sealed tightly.
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Abyss
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Noun: A deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity; vast chasm.
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Tumult
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Noun: Violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob.
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Notorious
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Adjective: Widely and unfavorably known, famous.
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Interspersed
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Verb: To scatter here and there.
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Lucidity
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Adjective: Easily understood.
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Harangued
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Noun: A scolding or a long or a intense verbal attack; speech.
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Poignant
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Adjective: Keenly strong in mental appeal.
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Wizened
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Adjective: Withered or shriveled.
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Altruistic
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Adjective: Unselfish, caring, concerned for others welfare.
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Cynical
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Adjective: Showing contempt for accepted standards of honesty or morality by one's actions, especially by actions that exploit the scruples of others.
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Dissipated
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Verb: To scatter in various directions.
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Imprudent
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Adjective: Lacking discretion, incautious; rash.
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Sabotage
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Noun: Any underhand interference with production, work, etc., in a plant, factory, etc., 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, etc.; 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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Apathy
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Noun: Absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement.
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Grimace
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Noun: A facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
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Excruciating
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Adjective: Very painful; causing intense suffering; unbearably distressing.
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Disheveled
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Adjective: Hanging loosely, unkempt, or untidy.
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