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Vocabulary words; study guid.
Vocab chapter 14
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6th Grade
02/06/2008

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abstain
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To stay away from doing something, by one's own choice
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accommodate
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to do a favor or, service for help out to provide for supply with to have space for to make fit or sutible
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allegiance
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The loyalty or obligation owed to a government nation or cause
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amalgamate
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to unite; to combine elements into a unified whole
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append
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to attach add or tack on as a suppliment or extra item
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commemorate
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to preserve honor or celebrate the memory of  

 

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enumerate
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to count to name one by one to list
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exalt
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to make high in rank power character or quality

to fill with pride joy or noble fealing 

to praise or honor 

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extort
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to obtain by violence misuse of authority or threats
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far-fetched
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strained or improbable in the sense of not being logical or believable

going far afield from a topic 

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glum
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depressed gloomy
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replica
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a copy close reproduction
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responsive
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answering or replying

acting readily to requests suggestions etc...

showing intrest and understanding 

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sanctuary
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a sacred or holy place

a place refuge or protection from capture of punishment

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self-seeking
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selfishly ambitious
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submissive
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humbly obedient

tending to give into authority

obeying without protest 

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tally
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to count up to keep score to make entries for reckoning to correspond or agree
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taskmaster
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one who's job it is to assign work to others

one who uses his/her power to make people work verry hard 

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transform
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to change completely in appearance or form

to make into something else  

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upheaval
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a sudden violent upward movment

great disorder or radical change 

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