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Vocab Unit 7
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English
11th Grade
02/28/2010

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aberration
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n something not typical; a deviation from the standard
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alacrity
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n cheerfull eagerness or readiness to respond (more intellectual)
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cacophony
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n harshsounding mixture of words, voices, or sounds
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facetious
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adj humorous; not serious; clumsily humorous
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implement
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v to carry out
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incisive
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adj cutting right to the heart of the matter (to point out)
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ingenuous
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adj frank; without deception; simple; artless; charmingly naive
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malleable
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adj easy to shape or bend
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petulant
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adj rude; cranky, ill-tempered
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temerity
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n bouldness; recklessness; audacity
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archy
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ruler (anarchy, matriarchy)
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crat/cracy
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to govern (democracy)
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dem
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people (epidemic, pandemic)
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fac/fic/fig/fait/feit/fy
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to do/to make (factory, benefactor, facile, efficient)
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phone
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sound (telephone, megaphone, cacophony)
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