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Vocabulary
Vocab. words for Mrs. Minick's class
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English
12th Grade
03/02/2012

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Cogent
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(Adj.) Having the power to compel or constrain.
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Exigent
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(Adj.) With urgent need.
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Assay
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(Vrb.) To judge or analize.
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Intransigent
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(Adj.) Unwilling or refusing to change one's views or to agree about something.
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Incite
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(Vrb.) To encourage or stir up.
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Resuscitate
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(Vrb.) To revive from unconsciousness or apparent death.
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Solicitous
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(Adj.) Characterized by or showing interest or concern.
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Perturb
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(Vrb.) To make anxious or unsettled.
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Turbulent
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(Adj.) Moving unsteadily or violently.
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Turbid
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(Adj.) Cloudy, opaque, or thick with suspended matter.
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Alacrity
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(N.) Brisk and cheerful readiness.
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Celerity
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(N.) Swiftness of movement.
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Degenerate
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(Vrb.) To decline or to deteriorate physically, mentally, or morally.
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Engender
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(Vrb.) To produce; to cause or give rise to; beget.
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Genre
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(N.) A category.
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Innate
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(Adj.) Inborn, natural, or originating in the mind.
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Nascent
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(Adj.) Coming into existence; showing possible potential.
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Transfigure
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(Vrb.) To transform into something.
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Fictive
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(Adj.) Creating or created by imagination.
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Feign
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(Vrb.) To give false apperance.
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Parturient
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(Adj.) About to give birth.
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Repertory
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(N.) A stack or storage of something; the performance of various plays at regular short intervals.
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Vehement
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(Adj.) Strongly passionate about something.
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Inveigh
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(Vrb.) To protest strongly.
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Surmise
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( N. or Vrb.) N.: A guess; Vrb.:To guess.
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Demise
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(N.) The death or tragic fall of something or someone.
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Remit
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(Vrb.) To make a payment.
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Emblematic
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(Adj.) Symbolic.
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Diabolical
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(Adj.) Like the devil; evil.
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Hyperbole
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(N.) An extreme exageration.
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Episodic
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(Adj.) Occuring every now and then.
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Methodical
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(Adj.) In an oragnized fashion.
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Synod
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(N.) Committee for a church.
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Agrarian
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(Adj.) Of or relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land.
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Peregrination
Definition
(N.) Traveling or wandering around.
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Aggregate
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(N. or Vrb.) (N.): A whole formed by combining several elements. (Vrb.): Formed or grouped into a class or cluster.
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Egregious
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(Adj.) Outstandingly bad; Shocking.
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Pastoral
Definition
(Adj.) Used for or related to keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle.
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Repast
Definition
(N.) A big meal.
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Bucolic
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(Adj.) Of or relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country life.
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Rustic
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(Adj.) Having a simplicity and charm that is typical of the country side.
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Idyllic
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(Adj.) Extremely happly, peaceful, or picturesque.
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Fruition
Definition
(N.) The realization of a plan or project; the point at which a plan or project is realized.
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Fruitless
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(Adj.) Failing to achieve the desired results, unproductive, or useless.
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Gregarious
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(Adj.) Fond of company; living a sociable life.
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