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Vocab for Final
for the english final
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English
10th Grade
06/11/2011

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Austere
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sever or stern in manner;without adornment or luxury, simple, plain; harsh or sour in flavor
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Beneficent
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performing acts of kindness or charity;conferring benefits, doing good
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Cadaverous
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pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse
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Concoct
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to prepare by combining ingrediants, make up(as a dish); to devise, invent, fabricate
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Crass
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coarse, unfeeling; stupid
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Debase 
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to lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade adulterate; to cause to deteriorate
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Desecrate
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to commit sacrilege upon, treat irreverntly; to contaminate, pollute
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disconcert
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to confuse; to disturb the composure of
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grandiose
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grand in an impressive or stately way; marked by pompous affectation or grandeur, absurdly exaggerated
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inconsequentail
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trifling, unimportant
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infraction
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a breaking of a law or obligation
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mitigate
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to make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity
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pillage
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to rob of goods by open force (in war), plunder; (n.) the act of looting; booty
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prate
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to talk a great deal in a foolish o aimless fashion 
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punctilious
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very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etetiquette or propriety
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redoubtable
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inspiring fear or awe; illustrious, eminent
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reprove
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to find fault with, scold, rebuke
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restitution
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the act of restoring someone or something to the rightful owner or to a former state or position; making good on a loss or damage
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Vulnerable
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open to attack, capable of being wounded or damaged, unprotected
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stalwart
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strong and sturd;brave;resolute. a brave, strong person;a strong supporter; one who takes an uncompromising position
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acrimonius
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stinging, bitter in temper or tone 
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Bovine
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resembling  a cow or ox ,sluggish, unresponsive
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consternation
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dismay,confusion
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corpulent
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fat,having a large,bulky body

 

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disavow
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to deny responsibility for or connection with
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dispassionate
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impartial,calm,free from emotion
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dissension 
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dissgreement,sharp difference of opinion
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dissipate
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to cause to disappear,to scatter,dispel,to spend foolshly squander,to be extrvagant in pursiut of pleaser
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expurgate
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to remove objectionable passages or words to a written text,to cleanes,purify
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gauntlet
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 an armored protective glove ,a challenge,two lines of menarmed with weapons with which to beat a person forsed to run between thum,anordeal
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hypothetical
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based on an assumption or guees,used as a provisional or tentative idea to guid or direct investigation
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ignoble
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mean,low,base
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impugn
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o call into qestion;to attack as false
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odium
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hatred ,contempt;disg grase  or infamy reasulting from hateful conduct
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intemperate
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immoderate,lacking in self-control;inclement
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perfidy
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faithlessness,treachery

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relegate
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to place in lower position; assign,turn over;to banish
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squeamish
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inclined to nausea; easiley shocked or upset;execessively fastidious or refined
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subservient
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 sudordinate in capacity or role;submissively obeddient;serving to promote some end
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susceptible
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open to;easily influenced; lacking in resistance
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abate 
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to make less in amount,degree,ect;to sub side ,beacome less ;to nullifty;to deduct,omit
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adulation
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praise  or    fllattery      that is  excessive
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