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Vocab Part 3
Vocab for Donovan's AP class
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English
11th Grade
09/27/2007

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pathos
Definition
that which makes people feel pity or sorrow
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queue
Definition
a line
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recidivism
Definition
the act of repeating an offense
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schism
Definition
a division or seperation; disharmony
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temporal
Definition
pretaining to time; pretaining to life and earthly exsistance; non-eternal
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usuary
Definition
lending money at an extremely high rate of interest
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vacuous
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empty of contest, lacking in ideas or intellegence
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wak
Definition
the trail or path left behind something
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sophomoreic
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juvenile, or childishly goofy
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tortuous
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winding or twisting, full of curves
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acuede
Definition
to give in or to yield
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balk
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to abruptly refuse to do something; to stop short
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forte
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a person's strong point, special talent, or specialty
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harbringer
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an omen
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calumnyn
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slander; a maliciously false statement
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