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vocab unit 4 quiz
vocabulairy quiz
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English
10th Grade
02/14/2011

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affable
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courtious and pleasent
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aggrandize
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to increase in greatness
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amourphous
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shapeless without definate form
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aura
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that whitch surrounds an atmousphere
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contraband
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illigal trafic smuggled goods
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erdite
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schorlarly,learned,bookish,pedantic
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gossamer
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thin,light,delcate,insubstancial
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infer
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to find out by reasioning
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inscutable
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incapable of being undrstood
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isular
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relating to characdteristic of or situated on an island
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irrevocable
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incapable of being changed or called back
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propensity
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a natural inclination or predilection toward
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querulous
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peevish, complaining , fretful
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remonstrate
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to argue or plead with someone, against somthing protest against, object to
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repudiate
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to disown, reject, or deny the validity of
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resiliant
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able to return to an original shape or form able to recover quikly
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reverberate
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to re-echo, resound to reflect or be reflected repeadedly
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scurrilous
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coarsely abusive vulgar or low (especialy in language) foul mouthed
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sedulous
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persistant showing industry and determination
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sedulous
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persistant showing industry and determination
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sleazy
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thin or flimzy in texture
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