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Vocab unit 8
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English
11th Grade
03/13/2006

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Allege
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To assert without proof or confirmation
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Arrant
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thoroughgoing,out and out, shameless, blatant
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badinage
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light and playful conversion
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badinage
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light and playful conversation
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Conciliate
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to overcome the distrust of,win over; to appease
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countermand
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To cancel or reverse one order or command with another that is contrary to the first
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echelon
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one of a series of grades in an organized or field of activity; an organized military unit.
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Exacerbate
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To make more violent, severe, bitter, or painful
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Exacerbate
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To make more violent, severe, bitter, or painful
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Fatuous
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Stupid or foolish in a self-satisfied way
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irrefutable
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impossible to disprove; beyond argument
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irrefutable
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impossible to disprove; beyond argument
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juggernaut
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a massive and inescapable force or object that crushes whatever is in its path
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lackadaisical
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lacking spirit or intrest,halfhearted
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litany
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a prayer consisting of short appeals to God recited by the leader alternating with repsonses from congregation
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macabre
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grisly, gruesome; horrible, distressing; having death as a subject
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Paucity
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an inadequate quantity,scarcity, dearth
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portend
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to indicate beforehand that something is about to happenl to give advance warning of
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raze
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to tear down, destroy completely
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recant
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to withdraw a statement or belief to which one has previously been committed.
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saturate
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of a gloomy or surly disposition; cold sluggish in mood
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saturnine
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a gloomy or surly disposition; cold or sluggish in mood
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slough
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to cast off, discard; to get rid of something objectionable or unnecessary
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