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Vocabulary 5
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English
11th Grade
11/15/2009

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Ambient
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(adj) something you can't put your hands on that surrounds you (ambient music)
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Asperity
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(n) harshness of tone or manner
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Burnish
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(v) to polish by rubbing
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Cabal
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(n) A secret political clique or faction (secret group)
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Deprecate
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(v) to express earnest disapproval of
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Detritus
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(n) waste or debris
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Ebullient
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(adj) cheerful and full of energy
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Eclectic
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(adj) deriving ideas, styles, and tastes from a broad and diverse range of sources (music)
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Impecunious
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(adj) having little or no money
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Inexorable
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(adj) impossible to stop or prevent
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Moribound
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(adj) in the process of becoming obsolete( no longer used or out of date), poems about death and dying
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Necromancer
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(n) one who practices with communicating with the death
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Onerous
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(adj) of a task, duty, or responsibility that involves an amount of effort and difficulty that's burdensome
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Rife
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(adj) something undesirable and harmful of common occurrence and is widespread
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Rudiments
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(n) the first principals of subjects(the basics/fundamentals of something)
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Sequester
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(v) to isolate or seperate
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Winnow
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(v) to examine something and removes the bad parts
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Espouse
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(v) to adopt as a belief or cause (to make something ones own)
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Aesthetic
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(adj) concerned with beauty or appreciative of beauty
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Defunct
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(adj) no longer existing or functioning
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Gregarious
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(adj) of a person fond of company; sociable
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Allusion
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(n) an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly (biblical allusion)
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