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Unit 3 Vocabulary
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English
9th Grade
12/17/2011

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Adversary

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(N.) An enemy, opponent

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Alienate

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(V.) To turn away; to make indifferent or hostile; to transfer; convey

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Artifice

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(N.) A skillful or ingenious device; a clever trick; a clever skill; trickery

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Coerce

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(V.) To compel, force

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Craven

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(Adj.) Cowardly;
(N.) A coward 

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Culinary

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(Adj.) Of or related to cooking or the kitchen

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Delete

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(V.) To erase, wipe out; cut out

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Demise

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(N.) A death, especially of a person in a lofty position

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Exhilarate

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(V.) To enliven, cheer, give spirit or liveliness to

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Fallow

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(Adj.) Plowed but not seeded; inactive; reddish-yellow;

(N.) Land left unseeded;

(V.) To plow but not seed

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Harass

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(V.) To disturb, worry; to trouble by repeated attacks

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Inclement

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(Adj.) Stormy, harsh; severe in attitude or action

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Muse

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(V.) To think about in a dreamy way, ponder

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Negligible

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(Adj.) So unimportant that it can be disregarded

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Perpetuate

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(V.) To make permanent or long lasting

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Precedent

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(N.) An example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action

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Punitive

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(Adj.) Inflicting or aiming at punishment

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Redress

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(V.) To set right, remedy;
(N.) Relief from wrong or injury 

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Sojourn

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(N.) A temporary stay;

(V.) To stay for a time

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Urbane

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(Adj.) Refined in manner or style, suave

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