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Vocab section midterm review
Vocab section midterm review hths Mrs.bowen advanced
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English
11th Grade
01/27/2013

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acquisitive
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able to get and retain ideas of information;concerned with acquiring wealth or property
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arrogate
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to claim or take without right
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banal
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hackneyed, trite, commonplace
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belabor
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to work on excessively; to thrash soundly
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carping
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tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; petty nagging criticism
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coherent
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holding together; making a logical whole, comprehensible, uncritical
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congeal
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to change form from a liquid to a solid, thicken; to make inflexible
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emulate
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to imitate tiwh the intent of ewualing or surpassing
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eschew
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to avoid, shun, keep away from
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encomium
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a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute
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germane
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relevant appropriate, apropos, fitting
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intansigent
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refusing to compromise, irreconcilable
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invidious
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offensive, hateful tending to cause bitterness or resentment
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Largesse
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generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions
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tenable
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capable of being held or defended
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aniadevrsions
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a comment indicating strong criticism or dissapproval
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brackish
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having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink
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celerity
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swiftness rapidity of motion or action
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myopic
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nearsighted; lacking broad, realistic view of a situation lacking foresight or discernment
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histrionic
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pertaining to actors and their techniques
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carvot
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romp and prance around; to make merry
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dissemble
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to disguise or conceal, deliberately give a false impression
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exhume
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remove from a grave
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exigency
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urgency, pressure; urgent demand, pressing need; an emergency
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incumbeny
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obligatory, required, one who holds a specific office are the time spoken of
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