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Vocab 2
Love is a temple love the higher law. you ask me to enter then you make me crawl
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English
11th Grade
09/23/2012

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Accost
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confront in a challenging/aggressive way
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Animadversion
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comment indicating strong critisimy/disaproval
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avid
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desirous of something pointing to greed
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brackish
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having a salty taste
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celerity
Definition
swiftness, rapidity of motion or action
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devious
Definition
straying or wandering from a straight or direct course
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gambit
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an opening move in chess that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece to gain a later advantage
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halcyon
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calm, peaceful, happy, legendary bird
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histrionic
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pertaining to actors and their techniques, melodramatic
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incendiary
Definition
delibrately setting or causing fires
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overt
Definition
open, not hidden
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maelstrom
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a whirlpool of great size and violence
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myopic
Definition
nearsighted, lacking a broad realistic view
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Pejorative
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tending to make worse, expressing disapproval
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Propritey
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state of being proper, appropriateness
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sacrilege
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improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred
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summarily
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without delay or formality
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suppliant
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asking/someone who asks humbly or earnestly
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talisman
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an obj that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers
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undulate
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to move in waves or with a wavelike motion
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