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Othello
Voca
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Undergraduate 1
06/08/2008
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Bombast

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Puffed-up; Pompous
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Preferment
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Promotion
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Obsequious
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Fawning; Showing servil compliance
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Grange
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Farm; Grainery
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Lascivious
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Lecherous
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Deluding
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Deceiving
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Promulgate
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Officially announce
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Beguiled
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Diverted; Taken away; Also charmed of delighted
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Alacrity
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Eagerness; Quickness
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Surfeited
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Fed to the excess
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Tempest
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Violent storm
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Base
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Common; low in station
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Satiety
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The condition of being overfilled or overgratified
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Requisities
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Requirements
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Impediment
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Something in the way; a hinderance
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Egregiousy
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Consequently offensive
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Perdition
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Total ruin; damnation
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Shrift
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Confessional
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Beseech
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Earnestly request
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Wooed
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Courted; dated
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Conspire
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Secretly plot
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Importunity
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Repeated requests
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Castigation
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Punishment; criticism
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Advocation
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A cause or path of action
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Suborned
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Induced to commit a bad action or perjury
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Credulous
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Gullible
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Wit
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Intelligence; humor
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Iniquity
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Sin(s)
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Expostulate
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Reason earnestly
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Mandate
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Command; official instruction
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Bawdy
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Vulgar; humorously coarse
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Insinuating
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introducing an idea subtlely
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Incontinent
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Uncontrolled; unrestrained
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Mars
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Damages; marks
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Peril
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Danger
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Anon
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Soon
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Fie
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Used to express distaste or disapproval
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Linger
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to be slow in learning
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Pernicious
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Deadly; distructive
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Gratify
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Reward; indulge; satisfy
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Trifle
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Something of little importance or value
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Dismayed
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Having lost courage
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Malice
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Spite; ill-will
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