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vocab 13
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English
9th Grade
05/19/2009

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surname
Definition
(n.) family name; last name
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encumbered
Definition
(v.) to obstruct or hinder in movment;burden put heavey load on
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insignificant
Definition
(adj.) not significant; unimportant; petty; trifling; trivial
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profoundly
Definition
(adv.) penetrating or entering deeply in to subjects thought or knowledge deep insight.
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deportee
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(n.) a person expelled from a county as undesirable or as having entered illegally
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emigrate
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(v.) to leave one country and settle in another; migrate
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treatise
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(n.) a formal, lengthy exposition of a topic
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anecdote
Definition
(n.) a short account of an incident (interesting or entertaining)
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melancholy
Definition
(adj.) morbidly gloomy; sad; dejected
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constrain t
constrain
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(n.) the act of constraining
(v.) to compel by physical or moral mean; to confine; to restrain
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provision
Definition
(n.) supplies of food; victuals
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her metic
hermetically
Definition
(adj.) made airtight; impervious to air and liquids
(adv.) so as to be airtight or impervious
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pestilence
pestilential
Definition
(n.) any wide-spread and fatel infection or contagious malady
(adj.) having the nature of or breeding pestilence; morally harmfeul or pernicious
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notorious
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(adj.) famous for an unfavorable reason
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devoid
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(adj.) not possessig; destitute
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mo nocle
Definition
(n.) lens/eyeglass; for one eye
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lucid
lucidity
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(adj.) mentally sound; sane; clear; obvious; plain; understanable
(n.) clearness
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convale scence
convalesent
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(n.) gradual recovery from illness
(adj.) recovering health after sickness
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blandish
blandishment(s)
Definition
(v.) flatter; cajole
(n.) soothin or flattering speech or action
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convo y
Definition
(n.) a protecting force accompanying property in course of transpertation; accompany or escort
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