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Unit 6 Vocab
Level H Unit 6
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English
12th Grade
12/12/2006

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abortive
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failure to accomplish intent, premature, fruitless
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bruit
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to spread news, reports, broadcast
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contumelious
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insolent or rude in speech or behavior; insultingly abusive humiliating
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dictum
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a short saying; an authoritative statement
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ensconce
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to settle comfortably and firmly in position; to put or hide in a safe place; nestle, lodge
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iconoclastic
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attacking or seeking to overthrow popular or traditional beliefs, ideas, or institutions
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in medias res
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in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things
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internecine
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mutually destructive; characterized by great slaughter and bloodshed, murderous; savage, ruinous
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maladroit
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lacking skill or dexterity; lacking tact, perception or judgment
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maudlin
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excessively or effusively sentimental; mushy, mawkish
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modulate
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to change or vary the intensity or pitch; to temper or soften; to regulate, adjust
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portentous
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forshadowing an event to come; causing wonder or awe; self-consciously weighty, pompous
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prescience
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knowledge of events or actions before they happen; foresight, foreknowledge
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quid pro quo
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something given in exchange or return for something else; swap, trade
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salubrious
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conducive to health or well-being; wholesome, beneficial, healthy, invigorating
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saturnalian
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chatacterized by riotous or unrestrained revelry or licentiousness;
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touchstone
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a means or testing worth or geniuineness, benchmark, criterion, yardstick
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traumatic
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so shocking to the emotions as to cause lasting and substantial psyhological damage, jolting
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vitiate
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to weaken, debase, or corrupt; to impair the quality or value of, degrade, undermine
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waggish
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fond of making jokes; characteristic of a joker; playfully humorous or droll; whimsical, jocular
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