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Sadlier Oxford Level E Lesson 3
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10th Grade
08/21/2010

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adversary
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an enemy, opponent, rival, antagonist
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alienate
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to turn away, to make indifferent or hostile; to separate or estrange
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artifice
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a skillful device, a clever trick, a clever skill, strategem
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coerce
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to compel or force; pressure, bully
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craven
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cowardly, fearful, pusillanimous; a coward
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culinary
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or or related to the kitchen or cooking
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muse
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to ponder; to think about in a dreamy way, to meditate
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inclement
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stormy, harsh, sever in attitude or action, blustery, tempestuous
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harass
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to disturb or worry; to trouble by repeated attacks; annoy, pester
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fallow
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to plow but not seed; inactive, dormant; land left unseeded
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exhilarate
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to enliven or cheer, five spirit or liveliness to, stimulate
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demise
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a death, especially of a person in a lofty position, decease, passing away
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delete
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to erase, to wipe out; remove or cancel
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urbane
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refined in manner or style, suave, elegant
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sojourn
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a temporary stay, visit, stopover; to stay for a time
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redress
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to set right, remedy, rectify, correct, mitigate; relieft from wrong or injury
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punitive
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inflicting or aiming at punishment; penalizing
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precedent
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an example that may serve as a bsis for imitation or later action; guide, model
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perpetuate
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to make permanent or long-lasting; continue, preserve
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negligible
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so unimportant that it can be disregarded; trivial, insignificant
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