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Vocabulary #1
Colonial Packet Vocab
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10th Grade
09/22/2007

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ascetic
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(n) one who leads a life abstaining from physical pleasures for religious reasons
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bicameral
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(adj) havng two legislative or parliamentary chambers
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consensus
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(n) general agreement among the membres of a given group or community
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depravity
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(n) wickedness; corruption or evilness
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fruition
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(n) the state of bearing fruit; attainment of anything desired
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hegemony
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(n) leadership or predominance
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hierarchy
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(n) body of officials in successive ranks
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indelible
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(adj) unable to removed, erased, or washed away
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mercantile
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(adj) relating to merchants and trading
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monopoly
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(n) one provider of a product or service
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orthodoxy
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(n) submission to established doctrine, esp. in religion
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predestination
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(n) destination fordained by divine decree
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secular
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(adj) seperate from religion
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yeoman
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(n) lower ranking worker; free commoner who cultivates his own land
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zealot
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(n) fanatic
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