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Vocab #2
semster 1
20
English
11th Grade
08/26/2009

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Accost
Definition
to approach and speak to first to confront un a challenging or aggressive way
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Animadversion
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A comment indicating strongg critiscism or disapproval
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Avid
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desirous of something to the point of greed
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Brackish
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having a saity taste and unpleasent to drink
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Clerity
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swiftness, rapidity of motion or action
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Devious
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straying or wandering froma straight or direct course, done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way
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Gambit
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in a chess game, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of mions piece in order to gain later advantage
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Halcyon
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A legendary bird identified with the king fisher
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Histrionic
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pertaining to actors and their techniques, theatricle, artifical
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Icendiary
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dellberaltly setting or causing fire, designed, to start fires, tending stir up or stride or rebellion
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Maelstrom
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whirlpool of great size and violence myopic situation resembling violence and destruction
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Myopic
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Bearsighted lacking a broad realistic view of a situation, lacking foreseight
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Overt
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openly, blatantly easily seen, not hidden
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Rejorative
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tending to make worse expressing disapproval or dergatory
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propriety
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the stage of being proper appropratness satndards or what is proper or socially acceptable
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Sacrilage
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improper of disrespectful treatment of something held sacred
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Summary
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with out delay or formailty, brevity.
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Suppliant
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asking humbly or earnestly
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talisman
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an object that serves as a charm or is beleived to confer magical powers
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Undualte
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to move in waves or a wave like motiom, to have a wavelike appearance or form.
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