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R&G vocab test
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Vocab Test
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English
12th Grade
12/06/2012

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Flagrante delicto
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in the very act of committing the offense.
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Voyeur
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A person who practices obtaining sexual gratification by looking at sexual objects or acts, especially secretively.
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Grotesque
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a 16th-century decorative style in which parts of human, animal, and plant forms are distorted and mixed
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Nomenclature
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a set or system of names or terms, as those used in a particular science or art, by an individual or community, etc.
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Amnesiac
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a person affected by amnesia
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Hiatus
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any gap or opening.
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Retainer
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a servant or attendant who has served a family for many years.
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Non sequitur
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a statement containing an illogical conclusion.
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Delve
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to carry on intensive and thorough research for data, information, or the like; investigate
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Unorthodox
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not conforming to rules, traditions, or modes of conduct, as of a doctrine, religion, or philosophy
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Lugubrious
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mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner
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Dogma
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an official system of principles or tenets concerning faith, morals, behavior, etc., as of a church
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Pragmatic
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of or pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations
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Nonplussed
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to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely
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Niggardly
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reluctant to give or spend; meanly or ungenerously small or scanty
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Dumbshow
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gestures without speech
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Coda
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a repeating part
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Inexorable
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unbending; severe, relentless, unrelenting, implacable, merciless, cruel, pitiless
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Extemporize
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to use (a temporary solution) for an immediate need; improvise
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Cartographer
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a person engaged in cartography, or the production of maps.
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