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Vocabulary Level F
Unit 6
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English
10th Grade
11/17/2008

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Austere
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Severe or stern in manner; without adornment or luxury, simple, plain; harsh or sour in flavor
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Beneficent
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Performing acts of kindness or charity; conferring benefits, doing good
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Cadaverous
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Pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse
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Concoct
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to prepare by combining ingredients, make up(as a dish)
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Crass
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Coarse, unfeeling; stupid
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Debase
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to lower in character, quality or value; to degrade, adulterate; to cause to deteriorate
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Desecrate
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To commit sacrilege upon, treate irreverentlu; to contaminate
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Disconcert
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to confuse; to disturb the composure of
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Grandoise
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Grand in an impressive way; marked by pompous affectation or grandeur
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Inconsequential
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trifling, unimportant
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Infraction
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A breaking of aw or obligation
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Mitigate
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To make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity
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Pillage
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to rob f goods by open force (as in war), plunder
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Prat
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to talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion
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Punctillious
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very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette or propriety
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Redoubtable
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inspiring fear or awe; illustrious, eminent
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Reprove
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to find fault with, scold, rebuke
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Restitution
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The act of restoring somone or soething to the rightful owner or to a former state or position
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Stalwart
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Strong and sturdy; brave; resolute
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Vulnerable
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Open to attack; capable of being wounded or damaged; unprotected
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