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Online English Final
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English
10th Grade
06/16/2011

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Aloof

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Reseved; at a distance
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Amiable

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Good natured; friendly

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Arbitrate

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Dispute; decide
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Ascertain

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To find out with certainty
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Asinine

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Stupid; silly
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Condescend

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Deal with others kindly in a snobbish, haughty way
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Contentious

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Liking disputes or arguments
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Diminutive

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Very small; tiny
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Illicitly

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Unlawfully; improperly
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Iniquity

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Wickedness or injustice
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Malignant

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Passionately malevolent; evil
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Melancholy

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Sad and depressed
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Perpetual

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Lasting a long time
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Placid

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Calm; quiet
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Accommodate
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To make fit, suitable; to bring into agreement or give consideration to
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Acquiesce
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To consent without protest
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Acrimonious
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Caustic, bitter or harsh in speech or manner
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Adamant
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Inflexible or unyeilding
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Altercation
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A fight; a quarrel
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Ambidextrous
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using both hands with equal ease
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Apparition
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Ghost,Vision, or specter
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Apprehensive
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Fearful or uneasy about the future; anxious
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Arid
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Dry or barren; uninteresting or dull
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Articulate
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Speak clearly/ distinctly
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Bleak
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Cold, bare; gloomy or not hopeful
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Complacent
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Content, often to the point of selfsatisfaction or smugness
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Connive
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To cooperative secretively in a scheme or wrongdoing
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Contemptuous
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Disdainful or disgusted
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Contradict
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To assert the opposite of what is being spoken, to be contrary
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Convene
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To come together
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Cordial
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Warm, sincere
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Corroborate
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To confirm or support
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Credibility
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Believability, reliability
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Curtness
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Harshness; rudeness
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Cynical
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Denying the sincerity of peoples movites
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Discreet
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Prudent or careful about ones actions
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Disengage
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To release from something; to withdraw or detach oneself
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Disposition
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The temperament of a person or thing
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Drone
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an idler or a loafer or to talk in a monotonous tone
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Elusive
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Hard to identify
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Exculting
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Taking pride or reveling in glory
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Facilitate
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To make easy or smooth the progess of
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Fatalism
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The belief that all events are determined by fate and inevitable
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Feeble
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Weak
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Fluctuate
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To shift back and forth uncertainly
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Formidable
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Causing fear
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Furtive
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Sneaky; Sly
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Garishly
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Adorned with excessive color or ornamentation; showily; gaudily
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Ghoul
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Grave robber; Ghostly figment
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Impassive
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Calm, not feeling or showing emotion
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Inconspicuous
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Attracting little attention
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Indigenous
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Living or occuring naturally in an enviroment
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Indisputable
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Certian beyond any doubt
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Inevitable
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Certain to happen; unavoidable
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Infinite
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Without boundaries or limits
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Innate
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Inborn, natural
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Intergrity
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Truthfulness, honesty; adherence to a moral code
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Irrelevant
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having no applications; having no importance to topic at hand
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Keenly
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Intensely or eagerly; with dedication
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Lectern
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A reading stand or desk used by speakers
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Libel
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Written statement that injures one's character; publish unjust statements
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Livid
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Enraged
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Malevolent

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Wishing harm to others
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Meander
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To roam or wander aimlessly
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Mollify
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To soothe, appease; to make less severe
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Mortification
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Extreme humiliation
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Mysterious
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Relating to something unknown or questioned
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Obscure
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Ambiguous and hard to understand
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Ominous
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In a warning manner; threatening and gloomy
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Perpetrate
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To commit (a blunder or a crime)
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Prim
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Formal and proper, almost in a stuffy,snobbish way
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Relish
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To take pleasure in
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Reluctant
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To be hesitant beause of doubts
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Reprimand
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To rebuke or discipline severely
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Rigor
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Severity, strickness; inflexiblity
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Scrutiny
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Close, careful inspection
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Simultaneous
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Occuring at the same time
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Sneer
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To scorn, mock, or laugh at
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Stolidly
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Seriously; having or showing little emotion
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Suspense
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Uncertainty, anxiety; state of being undecided or doubtful
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Teeming
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Swarming; overflowing
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Tension
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Process of stretching or building up of something; inner striving, unrest
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Undulate
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Sway back and forth
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Unfathomable
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Not understandable
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Untrammeled
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Unconfined; unrestrained; free in movement or activity
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Vex
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To anger or irritate
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Vigorous
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With Energy; forceful and spirited
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Volition
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An act of choosing or deciding; agency
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Volition
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An act of choosing or deciding; agency
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Warranted
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having justification or grounds for action; possessing a legal document allowing search
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