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Things Fall Apart
4-10 vocab
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English
10th Grade
01/12/2012
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benevolent
 Definition
well-meaning, kindly
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brusqueness
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bluntness, abruptness
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justifiable
 Definition
can be shown to be right
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maize
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corn
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valediction
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bidding farewell
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arduous
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difficult, strenuous
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poignant
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touching, painful
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ancestral
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of the forefathers
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calabash
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gourd
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mortar
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vessel used for pounding food
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sheathed
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put into a cover
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plaiting
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braiding or pleating
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grandee
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nobleman
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feign
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pretend
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harbingers
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forerunners, foreshadowing the future
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pestle
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club-shaped tool for pounding or grinding
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effeminate
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woman-like, weak
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camwood
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shrub with red heartwood made into cosmetics, dyes, medicines
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vague
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indistinct, hazy
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pulsation
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throbbing, beating
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suitor
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a man courting a woman
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audacity
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fearlessness or insolence
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conspiracies
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agreements to commit crimes or other wrongs
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succession
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a group of things following in a sequence
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specious
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looking attractive or correct but actually false
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devoid
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lacking or without
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mutilate
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mangle, disfigure, butcher
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