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Process Analysis Vocab
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English
12th Grade
12/06/2010
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cognitive
 Definition
pertaining to mental process
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vignettes
 Definition
pictorial or literary process
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rhetorical
 Definition
concerned with style or effect
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flourishes
 Definition
elegant displays of language
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spontaneity
 Definition
quality of being natural or unplanned
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subvert
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undermine
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meticulously
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thorough
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unwieldy
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not easily handled
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fluency
 Definition
speaking or writing readily
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passive
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form of verb voice
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adaptive
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modyifying to conditions
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antecedent
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word replaced by a pronoun
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directives
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instructions
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context bound
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determined by style and content
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injunctions
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commands
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minutiae
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precise details
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qualification
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modification
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conceptual
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pertaining to thought processes
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dictum
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command
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comatose
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unconscious state
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aneurysm
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arterial enlargement
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dowels
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small wooden rods
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evocative
 Definition
drawing forth feelings
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declarative
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explanatory
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mentors
 Definition
trusted advisers
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disparate
 Definition
dissimilar
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lath
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wooden strip
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quack
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fruadulent practitioner
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differentiate
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distinquish
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charade
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blatant pretense
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plummet
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plunge
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conduit
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passageway
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inscribe
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induct
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coastermonger
 Definition
apple seller
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suffused
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overspread
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calibrated
 Definition
marked with gradations
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redoubtable
 Definition
commanding respect
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omnipresent
 Definition
being everywhere
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invasive
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intrusive
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attributable
 Definition
resulting from
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tentative
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hesitant
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assumption
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taken for granted
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provacatively
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causing stimulation or desire
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cleavage
 Definition
area between a woman's breast's
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touting
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promoting
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stereoyping
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standardized conception or image
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WASP
 Definition
member of the white establishment
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pathologically
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abnormally
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mannequin
 Definition
store window dummy
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attribute
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characteristic
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exhorted
 Definition
urged
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contingent
 Definition
dependent on
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anorexic
 Definition
having an eating disorder
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sensual
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arousing
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disparagement
 Definition
discrediting
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overt
 Definition
not concealed
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subliminal
 Definition
beneath consciousness
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mundane
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ordinary
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ubiquitous
 Definition
existing everywhere
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reduntant
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repetitive
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outside
 Definition
conscious perception
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fascist
 Definition
one with extreme right wing sentimentals often including anti-semitism
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figuratively
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metaphorically
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elusive
 Definition
hard to grasp or perceive
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arbitrarily
 Definition
based on whim
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