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Quarter Three Vocabulary
Whale Rider
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English
7th Grade
01/06/2010

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Benign
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Not a threat to life or long-term health
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Apex
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The highest point of something
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Bluff
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A high steep bank
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Crucible
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Forces that test and make one change
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Gravity
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The serious nature of something
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Homage
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A show of reverence or respect
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Impetuous
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Acting on the spur of the moment without considering the consequences
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Inevitable
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Impossible to avoid or prevent from happening
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Ironic
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Incongruity between what actually happens and what might be expected to happen
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Languid
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Lacking vigor or energy
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Livid
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Very angry
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Melee
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A noisy confused fight
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Ostracism
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To banish or exclude somebody
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Penitent
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Expressing a feeling of regret or sorrow for having committed a misdeed
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Retribution
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Something done as punishment or vengeance
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Rhapsody
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An expression of intense enthusiasm
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Terrain
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Ground or a piece of land seen in terms of its surface features.
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Uncanny
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Too strange or unlikely to seem merely natural or human
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Wraith
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The ghost of a dead person
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Throng
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A large crowd of people or objects
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