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English
12th Grade
10/15/2009
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abase
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lower, humiliate
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abash
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to embarrass
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abate
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to lessen
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abominate
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to loathe, hate
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abstruse
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profound, difficult to understand
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accentuate
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to stress, emphasize
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acclivity
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sharp incline of a hill
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accolade
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award, honour
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accost
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to approach and speak to
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activism
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vigorous action or involvement as a means of achieving political or other goals, sometimes by demonstrations, protests, etc.
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adroit
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skillful
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adulate
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to flatter and praise too much
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adulterate
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to make impure
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adumbrate
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to foreshadow by disclosing only partially
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adverse
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unfavorable
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aesthetic
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artistic, pertaining to a sense of what is beautiful
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affected
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fake
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Affinity
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attraction
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Affinity
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attraction
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Affluent
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rich
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Affray
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public brawl
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Agape
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Agape
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open-mouthed
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air (v)
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to bring to public notice, display, broadcasted
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alacrity
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cheerful promptness
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alimentary
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supplying nourishment
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allay
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to soothe, make more bearable (alleviate)
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allopathic
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the method of treating disease by using agents that produced the disease
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allude
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to refer indirectly
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allusion
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reference to something
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altercation
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violent dispute
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amalgam
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allow of mercury with another metal. A mixture or combination.
-His character is a strange amalgam of contradictory traits.
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amass
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to collect
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ambivalent
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uncertain. undecided. Shy
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ambulatory
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able to walk
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ameliorate
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to improve a bad situation
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amity
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peaceful relations, friendship
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amok
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frenzy to do violence or kill. In a jumbled or confused state.
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amorphous
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shapeless
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analogous
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similar in a way of an analogy.
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anathema
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person or thing detested or loathed. A curse, execration, imprecation of divine punishment
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Annunciation
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proclamation, announcing
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Anomaly
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deviation from the norm
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anthropoid
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human like
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antipathy
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hatred, aversion, dislike
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apathetic
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indifferent, showing lack of interest
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apex
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tip, peak, summit
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appease
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to sooth, placate (assuage, allay, alleviate)
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arbitrary
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chosen at random or without apparent reason
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archaic
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primitive, ancient, old
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ardor
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passion
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askew
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crooked
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assuage
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to ease, pacify (appease)
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astute
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shrewd, wise, observing
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atypical
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not typical
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audacity
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boldness
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august
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majestic, awe-inspiring
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auspicious
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favoured by fortune, prosperous, fortunate, success
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austerity
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severity, strictness
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autonomous
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self-governing, independent
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averse
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opposed, unwilling
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awry
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twisted, crooked
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baleful
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exerts an evil influence or foreshadows evil
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baneful
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poisonous or deadly
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bawdy
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obscene, coarse, humorous (lewd)
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beatific
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displaying or imparting joy
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begrudge
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to envy, resent
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beguile
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trick
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bellicose
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violent, warlike
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bemuse
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to bewilder or confuse someone
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benevolent
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kind
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berate
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to scold severely
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bereft
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lacking something needed, deprived, desolate
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betroth
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to become engaged
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biennial
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every two years
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bland
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dull
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blandishment
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flattery
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blighted
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ruined, destroyed
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boisterous
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rough and noisy, jolly and rowdy, clamorous
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bombastic
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grandiloquent(wordy, pompous) in speech or writing
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Braggadocio
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cockiness, a braggard
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brevity
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briefness
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brusque
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brief, curt, gruff, discourteous
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bucolic
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pastoral, typical of farms and rural life
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bumptious
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crudely self-assertive, pushy
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bunion
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a painful, inflamed swelling of the bursa at the first joint of the big toe
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