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English
10th Grade
09/04/2012

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Patient courage in facing pain or danger; more strength; endurance
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Fortitude
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To stoop to do something you think is unworthy of you
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Condescend
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To develop gradually by process of growth and change
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Evolve
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A fame, usually in an unfavorable cause
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Notoriety
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To express or state positively; to defend or claim (ones rights)
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Asserted
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A setting free of judgement by court; a release from duty; obligation, etc.
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Acquittal
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Of or suitable for a selected group; a group or part of a group regarded as the best, most skilled, most powerful, etc.
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Elite
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A wise or trusted teacher; a counselor
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Mentor
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Unable to speak understandably or effectively or to use words; unable to say what one thinks
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Inarticulate
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Show or feeling scorn
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Contemptuous
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A person who is very poor; especially one dependent upon public charity
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Pauper
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A selected passage or scene from a literary work or piece of music; an extract; to take out or select passages; to quote
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Excerpt
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A likeness between different things; a similarity; a comparison
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Analogy
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Pertaining to right and wrong; conforming to certain rule or standards; moral
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Ethical
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Relating to someone or something that foretells events
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Prophetic
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A belief different from an accepted doctrine
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Heresy
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Inherited from or related through ones father, fatherly
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Paternal
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Ancient times; a thing or people of ancient times; the quality of being ancient
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Antiquity
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Coming after death
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Posthumous
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All persons having the right to vote
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Electorate
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