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English
9th Grade
09/22/2008

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Alacrity
Definition
Cheerful willingness, readiness, liveliness
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Loath
Definition
unwilling, averse, disinclined, reluctant
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Volition
Definition
will
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Acclivity
Definition
Upward Slope
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Consummate
Definition
Perfect, superb, carried to the highest degree
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Sublimate
Definition
Redirect the energy of a person's bad impulses into socially and morally higher channels, purify, refine
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Zenith
Definition
Highest point, culmination
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Abject
Definition
Deserving contempt, sunk to a low condition, wretched
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Declivity
Definition
Downward Slope
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Nadir
Definition
Lowest point
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Plumb
Definition
Get to the bottom of, ascertaion the depth of, fathom
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Filial
Definition
Of or like a son or daughter
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Fraternal
Definition
Of or like a brother
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Gentility
Definition
Good manners, gentry, upper class
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Nepotism
Definition
Favoritism to relatives by those in power
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Progenitor
Definition
Forefather
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Progeny
Definition
Offspring, children, descendeants
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Fusty
Definition
Stale-smelling, musty, moldy, old-fashioned
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Noisome
Definition
Offensive to smell, disgusting, harmful, noxious
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Putrid
Definition
Stinking from decay, extremely bad, corrupt
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