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Vocab unit 11
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English
11th Grade
04/26/2009

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Abstemious
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Moderate;sparing(as in eating and drinking) self-Disiplined
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Accentuate
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To emphasize, place stress on
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Censurable
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Deserving blame or correction
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Contingent
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Likely, but not certain to happen Possible
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Denizen
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An Inhibitant, resident,one who frequents a place
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Discursive
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Passing aimlessly from one subject or place to another
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Corroborate
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To confirm, make more certain,support with
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Disseminate
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To scatter widely
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Dowdy
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Poorly dressed, shabby, lacking good taste
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Florid
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Highly colored, excessively ornate, over decorated
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Foist
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To impose or force another to accept by fraud. to bring in by stelth
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Gauche
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Awkward,lacking social grace
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Heresy
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opinion different from accepted belief
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Inculcate
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to impress on the mind by repitition, teach persistently
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Palpable
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Capable of being touched or felt
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Perceptive
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Having keen insight or understanding, sympathetic appreshion
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Pernicious
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Extremely harmful, fatal or deadly
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Quail
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to shrink back in fear, lose heart in a difficult or dangerous situation
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Salient
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standing out conspicuously, leaping, jumping, springing
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Satiate
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Satisfy completely(hunger,desire) fill to excess
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Sear
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to make or become dry and withered, to char or scorch the surface of
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Specious
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deceptive apparently valid but lacking real merit
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