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Tom Sawyer Vocab
The vocab for Tom sawyer
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Literature
7th Grade
11/20/2008

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Lugubrious
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Mournful; especially exaggeratly or affectively mournful
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Inquests
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Judicial or official inquiry or examination before jury
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Stolid

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Having or expressing little or no sensibility
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Charily
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Hesitant and vigilant about dangers and risks
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Conjectured
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A conclusion deduced by sumrise or quesswork
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Imminent
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Ready to take place especially hanging over ones head.
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Pregnant
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Rich in signifigance or implication
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Notoiety
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The quility or state of being notoious-Generally known or talked of; widly talked of.
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Temperance
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Moderation in action, thought , or feeling
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Diffident
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Hesitant in acting or speaking in lack of self confidence
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Hogshead
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Large cask or barrel
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Daubed
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To apply some thing to a surface in hasty or crude strokes
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Alactrity
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Promptness in response: cheerful readiness
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Smote
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Pst tense of smite: Smite - a sharp strike to the head with a hand or implement held in hand.
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August
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marked by majestic dignity or granduer
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Contend
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To strive or vie in contrast or rivelry or against difficulties.
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Accroutrements
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An accessory item of clothing or equipment usually used in plural.
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Pettishly
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Fretful or Peevish
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Clods

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A lump or mass especially of earth clay
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Galled
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To fret or ware away by friction.
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Droned
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To talk in a presistently dull or monotonous tone. To pass, or act, in a dull manner.
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Fillip
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a blow or gesture made by the sudden straitening of a finger curled up against the thumb.
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Pariah
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Social outcast
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Sidling
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To go or move with one side foremost especially in furtive advance. To cause to move.
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