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things fall apart vocab
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21
English
10th Grade
04/29/2007

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wily
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cunning, crafty
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harmattan
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a land breeze w/ lot of dust
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improvident
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lacking forsight
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improvident
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lacking forsight
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effeeminate
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male having feminine traits
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haggard
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worn or tired from prolonged suffering (slave)
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plaintive
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mournful, expressing sorrow
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discern
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to distinguish mentally, recognize
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sinister
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threatning or portreying evil
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uncanny
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having or seeming to have supernatural powers
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imperious
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dictatorial, overbearing
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capricious
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erratic, done on a whim
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incipient
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begining to exist or appear, in n initial stage
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brusque
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blunt, rough
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atone
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to make amends to a criminal or offensor (usually followed by for)
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abomination
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anything disliked or abhored
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disquieting
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causing anxiety or uneasiness, disturbing
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arduous
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requiring great exertion, laborious, difficult
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impudent
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impertinent
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disembody
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to get ride of a soul/spirit of a body
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feign
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to represent fictitiously put on an appearance of
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