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The Metamorphesis
Vocab Words for Metamorphesis
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English
10th Grade
01/18/2013

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Grueling
Definition
exhausting
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Meticulous
Definition
extreme concern for details
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Incomprehensible
Definition
something that cannot be explained
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Obstinacy
Definition
stubbornness
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Indisposition
Definition
unwillingness
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Premonition
Definition
an advance warning or feeling that something is going to happen
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Repulse
Definition
to reject something or someone
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Prohibition
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a law or order forbidding something
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Imminent
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describes something likely to happen soon
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Incessant
Definition
continuing without stopping
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Profuse
Definition
something that gives freely or in large amounts
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Ardor
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a way of acting that is energetic and exciting
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Prostrate
Definition
to lie or bend down in adoration
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Scrupulous
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someone who is detailed and precise
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Obtuse
Definition
slow in understanding
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Perverse
Definition
deliberately behaving badly or improperly
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Admonish
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to scold a person
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Blandish
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to talk someone into something with flattery
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Pique
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to wound the pride of
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Superfluous
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something that is unnecessary
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Scrutinize
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to look at something very closely or carefully
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Unfounded
Definition
not founded on fact or truth
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