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RL Turner 2009-2010 English Vocabulary
Vocab Week 8 RL Turner
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12th Grade
09/04/2009

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Acquiesce
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to submit or comply silently or without protest
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Amity
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friendship; peaceful harmony. Mutual understanding and a peaceful relationship, especially between nations
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Arduous
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hard to endure, full of hardships; laborious; difficult
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Gestalt
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a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts; a unified whole
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Inundate
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to flood; cover or overspread with water; to overwhelm
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Perjury
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the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry
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Perspicuity
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can be seen through, transparent, clear
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Preposterous
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unreasonable, absurd, ridiculous
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Trepidation
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tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation. Trembling or quivering movement.
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Voluble
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characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent; talkative
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