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Vocab set #5
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English
7th Grade
11/04/2010

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Plaintive

 

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adj- Expressing sadness or sorrow melancholy
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Platitude

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N- a trite or banal

statement; a ciche

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Plethora

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N- a superabundance;

an excess

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POIGNANT

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ADJ- Painfully emotional;

extreamly moving

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Portent

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N- An omen; a sign of something important of calamitous

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PRECEDENT

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N- An earlier example or model of something

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PRECEPT

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N- a rule establishing a certain course of action; a rule to live by;

a maximim

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