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Vocab Practice 5/25/11
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11th Grade
05/25/2011

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Term
Deleterious
Definition

Adjective.

 

Injurious to health or harmful.

 

ex. A weapon in the hands of someone evil can be deleterious.

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Term
Paradigm
Definition

Noun

 

A pattern or model or like set of things.

 

ex. The paradigm of murders eventually led us to he killer.

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Term
Nihilism
Definition

Noun

 

The total rejection of laws and institutions, the belief in total anarchy.

 

ex. The support of nihilism would lead to the destruction of the government.

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Sanguine
Definition

Adjective

 

Cheerfully optimistic; hopeful, or confident.

 

ex. The young boy was sanguine, despite failing his math test.

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Term
Yeoman
Definition

Adjective

 

Pertaining to the working class. Characterized by great effort or labor.

 

ex. The farmer does a yeoman's work all day, every day.

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