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Vocab: Maggie a girl on the streets
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English
11th Grade
02/28/2013

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Urchin
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a mischievous and often poor and raggedy clothed youngster
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Chronic
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being such habitually/doin the same thing over and over
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vehement
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intensly emotional
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prodigious
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being an omen/enormous
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precarious
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depending on the will or pleasure of another
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raiment
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apperal attire clothing
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gamins
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a boy who hangs around on the streets
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annihilate
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nullify
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furtively
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expressive of stealth
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affable
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being pleasent and at ease in talking to others
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crettone
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a strong cotton or linen coloth used expessially for curtains and upolstery
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lambrequin
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a scarf used to cover a knights helmet
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auspice
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a prophetic sign (favorable sign)
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palatial
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suitable to a palace
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fastidious
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having high standerds
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transcend
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to rise above or go beyond the limits
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facetious
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joking or jesting often
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furrow
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something that resembles a trake or plow
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assiduously
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marked by careful unremitting attention or persistant application
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copious
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full of thought, info, or matter
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frothing
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bubbles formed in or on a liquid(foam)
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philanthropy
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to follow members of the human race
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lament
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to mourn aloud (wail)
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beseech
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to beg for urgency or anxiously
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ostentatiously
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marked by or fond of conspicious
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indelible
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that cannot be removed
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pyrotechnic
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of relation to fire
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cohorts
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a group of warriors or soldiers
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fortorn
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sad and lonely because of isolation or desertion
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parody
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a feeble or ridiculous imitation
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