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Vocabulary set 13
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12th Grade
04/06/2011
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Phobia
 Definition
An intense, irrational fear of something
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Plagerism
 Definition
The use of another person's writing or ideasas one's own
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Plaintive
 Definition
Melancholy
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Plethera
 Definition
Excess
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poignant
 Definition
Keenly moving
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Precarious
 Definition
Uncertain
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Precocious
 Definition
Developing unusually early
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Prelude
 Definition
Anything that proceeds something else
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Predatory
 Definition
Preying on
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Premise
 Definition
A statement upon which an argument is based
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Prerogative
 Definition
A special right or privilege that belongs to a person or group
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Probity
 Definition
Unquestionable honesty
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Procrastinate
 Definition
To delay action
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Prodigious
 Definition
Extrodinary in size
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Promulage
 Definition
To officially announce
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Proliferate
 Definition
To rapidly increase
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Propensity
 Definition
A natural tendency
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Propitiate
 Definition
Pacify
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Protracted
 Definition
excessively prolonged
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Prowess
 Definition
Superior courage, ability, or skill
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Pseudonyn
 Definition
A fictious name assumed by an author
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Purge
 Definition
To cleanse or pacify
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pusillanimous
 Definition
Cowardly or mean-spirited
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Quell
 Definition
To quiet or pacify
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Quixotic
 Definition
High-minded but impractical
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