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Vocabulary Unit 13 + 14 Kline
Vocab Mrs. Kline English Honors
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English
9th Grade
05/10/2011

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surname
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(n.) family name; last name
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encumbered
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(v.) to obstruct or hinder in movement; burden put a heavy load on
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insignificant
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(adj.) not significant; unimportant; petty; trifling; trivial
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profoundly
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(adv.) penetrating or entering deeply in to subjects of thought or knowledge;
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deportee
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(n.) a person expelled from a country as undesirable or as having entered illegally
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emigrate
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(v.) to leave one country or region and settle in another; migrate
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treatise
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(n.) a formal, lengthy exposition of a topic
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anecdote
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(n.) a short account of an incident (interesting or entertaining)
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melancholy
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(adj.) morbidly gloomy; sad; dejected
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constraint ; constrain
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(n.) the act of constraining
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provision
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(n.) supplies of food; victuals
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hermetic
hermetically
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(adj.) made airtight; impervious to air and liquids
(adv.) so as to be airtight or impervious
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pestilence
pestilential
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(n.) any wide-spread and fatal infection or contagious malady
(adj.) having the nature of or breeding pestilence; morally harmful or pernicious
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notorious
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(adj.) famous for an unfavorable reason
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devoid
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(adj.) not possessing; destitute
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monocle
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(n.) lens/eyeglasses for one eye
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lucid
lucidity
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(adj.) mentally sounds; sane; clear; obvious; plain; understandable
(n.) clearness
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convalescence
convalescent
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(n.) gradual recovery from illness
(adj.) recovering health after sickness
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blandish
blandishment(s)
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(v.) flatter; cajole
(n.) soothing or flattering speech or action
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convoy
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(n.) a protecting force accompanying property in the course of transportations;
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frenzy
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(n.) violent agitation; madness; delirium
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torment
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(v.) to afflict with intense bodily or mental suffering or pain
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thrash
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(v.) to beat with a whip
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latter
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(adj.) the second of two mentioned person or things
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raucous
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(adj.) rough in sound; hoarse; harsh
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sabotage
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(n.) an act of malicious damage; to injure or attack
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lament
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(v.) to feel or express sorrow for
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void
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(adj.) not occupied by matter; empty; destitute; useless
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emaciated
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(adj.) very thin; wasted away
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elapsed
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(v.) to slip by; pass away (the time)
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feeble
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(adj.) lacking muscular power; weak; frail; inform
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evacuation
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(n.) the act of evacuating or making empty
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relentless
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(adj.) indifferent to the pain of others; pitiless; unremitting; continuous
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deprive
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(v.) to take something away from; to dispossess; remove and/or withhold something
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bereave
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(v.) to deprive as of hope or happiness; to leave desolate or saddened through loss
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apathy
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(n.) lack of felling, emotion, or sensation; insensibility; indifference; lack of interest
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livid
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(adj.) lacking color; ashen, ashy, bloodless, cadaverous
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vitality
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(n.) the state of being vital; animation; life
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tether
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(n.) something used to confine; as a rope for fastening
to fasten or confine
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contagion
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(n.) 1. the communication of disease by contact, direct or indirect of
figuratively, of mental states by suggestion or association
2. plague
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