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VOCABULARY WORDS MSHALVERSON6
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English
9th Grade
12/29/2008

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pungent
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biting, penetrating, caustic; effecting the organs of taste/smell with a sharp acrid sensation.
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aphorism
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a brief statement of truth or of a principle; a short instruction statement
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torpid
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dormant, hibernating; having no energy, power of motion, or feeling
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infinitesimal
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infinity; exceedingly or immeasurably small
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sinecure
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an office or position requiring little or no work, esp. one yielding great profit
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incarnate
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embodied in human form; in a physical form
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vagaries
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extravagant or erratic actions of notions
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cacophony
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jarring, discordant sounds, dissonance; disharmony
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effulgence
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radiance; a brilliant shine or glow
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timbre
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the combo of qualities of a sound that distinguishes it form other sounds of the same pitch and volume
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condole
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to express sympathetic sorrow, to lament
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presentiment
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a sense that something will or is about to happen, a premonition
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ostentatious
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characterize or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others; showy
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inveterate
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firmly established by long persistence or habit;habitual
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rapacious
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given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed; excessively grasping or covetous
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petulantly
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insolent or rude in speech or behavior; showng sudden, impatient irritation, esp. over some trifling annoyance
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salient
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forcing itself on attention, shooting out or up
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irate
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extremely angry; engraged
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demotion
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to reduce to a lower grade, rank, class, or position
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prodigious
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impressively great in size, force or extent; enormous; extraordinary
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inure
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to habituate to something undesireable, esp. by prolonged subjection; accustom
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