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Second Semester vocab final
Bedtelyon's honor english class
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English
11th Grade
06/12/2007

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aegis
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shield or protection; sponsorship
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hermetic
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airtight
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labyrinthine
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full of confusing passageways; complicated, like the labyrinth
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martial
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pertaining to war;warlike
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mentor
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wise and trusted advisor; athlectic coach
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myrmidon
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obedient and unquestioning follower
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pyrrhic
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gained to great at a cost
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pecadillo
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slight offense
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mettlesome
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spirited
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stripling
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lad
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anent
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about; concerning; in respect to
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heath
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tract of wasteland
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wax
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grow in size
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wane
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decrease gradually in size
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bovine
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cow-like or ox-like; sluggish and patient
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vulpine
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like a fox; crafty; cunning
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sanguine
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having a ruddy color; confident
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condescend
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bow; stoop
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corroborate
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confirm
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scintillate
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sparkle; twinkle
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firmament
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heaven
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genre
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kind; style
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malediction
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a curse; imprecation
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ignominy
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shame
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filament
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thread
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verity
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truth
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blase
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tired of pleasures;bored
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maladroit
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unskillful; clumsy
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naive
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simple;unsophisticated
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martinet
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person who enforces very strict discipline
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noblesse oblige
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principle of persons of high rank or birth are oblige to act nobly
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savoir faire
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knowledge of just what to do
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mot juste
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exactly right word
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vendetta
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feud for blood revenge
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salvo
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simultaneous discharge of shots; burst of tears
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peon
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common laborer; worker kept in service to repay a debt
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picaro
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adventureous rogue; vagabond
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repartee
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skillof replying quickly, cleverly, and humorously; witty reply
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arrow
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a slender, straight, generally pointed missile or weapon made to be shot from a bow and equipped with feathers at the end of the shaft near the nock, for controlling flight
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bete noire
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object or person dreaded
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faux pas
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misstep or blunder in conduct, manner, speech, etc.
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vignette
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a literay sketch; short verbal description
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indigo
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plant yielding a blue dye; deep-violet blue
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hors d'oeuvres
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light food served as an appetizer before the regular courses of a meal
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bagatelle
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trifle
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facade
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face or front of a building, or of anything
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milieu
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environment
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sobriquet
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nickname
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Yoknapatawpha
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apocryphal county located in northwestern mississippi in Faulkner's stories
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dilettante
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person who follows some art or science as a amusement or in a trifling way
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sotto voce
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in an undertone privately
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