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Vocabulary Study 7
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11th Grade
03/05/2014

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Accolade
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Praise, an award
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Amenable
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Open to or willing to follow advice or suggestion, tractable, malleable
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Ascetic
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One who leads a life of self-denial and contemplation; absent of luxury
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Charlatan
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One who claims to know something that he does not, a quack.
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Clandestine
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Secret; covert, furtive, stealthy, surreptitious, underhande
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Derision
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Scoffing at, mockery, ridicule
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Despotic
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Ruling oppressively and absolutely; tyrannical
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Diffidence
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Shyness, reserve, unassertiveness
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Effervescent
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Showing high spirits
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Forbearance
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Patience, lenience
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Hyperbole
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Obvious exaggeration
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Insularity
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Qualities of an island; narrow-mindedness of opinion
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Languid
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Slow, sluggish, listless, weak
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Litigious
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Excessively prone to lawsuits
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Oblique
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Slanting, indirect, evasive, devious, misleading
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Obsequious
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Overly attentive, like a sycophant, servile
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Paradoxical
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Something that appears false but is actually correct
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Poignant
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Piercing, incisive, and keen
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Scrupulous
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Very principled, very careful and conscientious
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