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11th Grade
05/20/2010
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Disdain
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dispise
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Abhor
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to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe; abominate.
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Ascribe
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accredit
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Antithesis
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opposition
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anecdote
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reminiscence
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phenomena
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a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable:to study the phenomena of nature.
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euphemism
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a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable:to study the phenomena of nature.
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affectation
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an effort to appear to have a quality not really or fully possessed; the pretense of actual possession: an affectation of interest in art; affectation of great wealth.
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slipshod
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careless 
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perseity
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(in medieval philosophy) the quality of those things having substance independently of any real object.
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propriety
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conformity to established standards of good or proper behavior or manners.
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arbitrary
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willful, bossy
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circumloqutions
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beating around the bush
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padantic
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overly concearned with details
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strident
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having harsh sound
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conciliatory
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appease
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capricious
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unsteady witty
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labyrinthine
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complicated elaborate
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inexorable
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not persuaded or moved
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extemporaneous
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done spoken preformed
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ambivalent
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undecided
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surmount
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to prevail over
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importunant
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urgent or persistant
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acerbic
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sour
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