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vocabulary workshop level f unit 9 vocabulary
words and some sentences
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English
11th Grade
02/06/2012

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Term
abate
Definition
As we crossed over the mountains that run down the center of Upolu and headed toward the southern coast the rain gradually ______.
Term
adulation
Definition
The crowd roared in noisy _________ as the speaker finished his oration.
Term
anathema
Definition
This remains ________ to western governments - which spent most of the 1980s demolishing commodity agreements - and to politically powerful transnational companies.
Term
astute
Definition
Is it because she a remarkably ______ and forthright and outspoken woman who's views challenge and overturn the hypocrisy of others?
Term
avarice
Definition
Society cannot be a means of satisfying the social needs of its members, but merely a means of satisfying the _______ of individuals.
Term
culpable
Definition
Sidney's position on meter, like many writers, suffers from inconsistency for which he cannot be held ________.
Term
dilatory
Definition
Britain was a somewhat ________ in providing letter boxes.
Term
egregious
Definition
There is nothing very difficult - nor, in purely linguistic terms, anything very _________ - in the english.
Term
equivocate
Definition
They couldn't __________ on the majesty of his oratory.
Term
evanescent
Definition
__________ modes are not just a theoretical concept, but occur in a number of physical devices that are collectively called photonic barriers.
Term
irresolute
Definition
The baron, in a great contention of mind, stood
__________, weighing the two dangers.
Term
nebulous
Definition
Yet there is a broadening range of sites in what is still new, and so ________, ground.
Term
novice
Definition
These are over 50m long and allow _______ to practice on gentle slopes in safety without having to manage conventional lifts.
Term
penury
Definition
Catherine was forced to live in near ______ with a frugal allowance from her father-in-law.
Term
pretentious
Definition
Some armigers are reluctant to use their heraldry as they feel that to do so may seem somewhat ___________.
Term
recapitulate
Definition
Like number five, he can only ____________ what was happened before, having stalled in his personal evolution.
Term
resuscitate
Definition
It appears to have been assumed that patients who were not immediately ____________ would die.
Term
slovenly
Definition
________ men, and the shipping struck me as clumsy, ugly, old, and dirty.
Term
supposition
Definition
She also starts out the novel with a set of facts designed to support the ____________ in the novel.
Term
torpid
Definition
In times of shortage, dormice will eat insects and are able to become ______.
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