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Final Exam Vocabulary
100
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01/24/2005

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Abashed
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Embarrased or ashamed
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Abominably
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In a hateful way, horribly
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Affirmation
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Something that suppors the validity or truth of something else
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Aghast
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Filled with shock
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Agile
Definition
Able to move quickly and easily
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Alien
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Foreign, strange, unfamiliar
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Aloof
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Distant, remote, standoffish
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Amenity
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Something that adds to one's comfort or convenience
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Anguish
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Great physical or mental suffering, agony
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Antibiotic
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Drug used to treat infectious bacterial diseases
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Appalled
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Dismay, horrified
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Articulate
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Clear and effective in speech
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Ascetic
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Severe, stern
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Avenge
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To take revenge on behalf of
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Banish
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To force away or drive out
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Beleaguered
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Surrounded
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Beseech
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To beg
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Blatant
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Completely obvious
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Bleakly
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Gloomily, without hope
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Bolster
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To support, reinforce
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Brevity
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The quality of being brief
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Cascade
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Waterfall, falling or flowing
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Casually
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In an unconcerned or informal manner
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Cavort
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To leap or romp about
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Chaos
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Great disorder or confusion
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Chasm
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A deep hole, as in Earth's surface
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Chide
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To scold
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Compulsively
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In obedience to an irresistible urge or impulse
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Conical
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A cone-like shape
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Conniving
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Scheming and deception
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Conspiracy
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A joining or acting together in a secretive way, often with wrongful motives
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Convey
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To make known in some other place, to get across, to show
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Default
Definition
To fail to keep a promise, especially a promise to repay a loan
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Degradation
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A decline to a lower condition with loss of dignity
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Degraded
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Fallen into a life of wickedness, depraved
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Denunciation
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Public condemnation, statement of disapproval
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Deplorable
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Deeply regrettable, unfortunate
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Disdain
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To refuse or reject scornfully
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Dissenting
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Disagreeing; having a different opinion
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Distraught
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Deeply upset, out of sorts
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Doggedness
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Persistence; stubborness
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Enticing
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Luring;tempting
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Essence
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The basic or most important quality
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Evolve
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To develop gradually
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Exorbitant
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Much too high; excessive
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Extremity
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A hand or a foot
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Facetiously
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In a manner not meant to be taken seriously; humorously
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Fiasco
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A complete failure; especially, a project whose great plans end in ridiculous failure
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Foreboding
Definition
A feeling that something bad is about to happen;a sense of impending doom
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Inextricably
Definition
In a manner which is impossible to untangle
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Inscrutable
Definition
Hard to interpret or understand, mysterious
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Insubordinate
Definition
Disobedient to a superior
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Intangible
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Difficult to perceive;vague
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Intuition
Definition
A sense of something that is gained without the use of logical reasoning;gut level feeling
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Invalid
Definition
Too ill to live a normal life
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Irreverence
Definition
Lack of proper respect
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Languorous
Definition
Creating a dreamy, lazy mood
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Lodge
Definition
To become embedded or stuck
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Lurk
Definition
To lie hidden, ready for ambush
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Malice
Definition
Desire to harm others or see others suffer, sadism
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Mandate
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A command or instruction by someone in authority
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Nostalgia
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A bittersweet longing for something or someone in the past
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Omen
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An event thought to fortell good or evil; a sign
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Oversight
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An unintentional mistake
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Pagan
Definition
A non-Christian;someone who worships an idol instead of a God
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Perfidy
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Dishonesty;treachery
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Poignantly
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In a profound emotional manner
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Ponderous
Definition
Heavy in clumsy way, bulky
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Precariously
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Insecurely;in a dangerous way
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Presumption
Definition
The act of assuming something in true
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Privation
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Lack of basic necessities or comforts of life
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Proliferate
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To multiply or spread rapidly
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Prosaic
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Dull;commonplace,often describes a person's prose
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Proverbial
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Widely spoken of;famous
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Prudence
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The use of good judgment and common sense
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Rapt
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Deeply delighted;enchanted
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Reconciliation
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A return to a state of friendship or harmony
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Relent
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To become less harsh, strict, or stubborn
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Remorse
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Bitter regret
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Sacrilegious
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Disrespectful towards a sacred person, place, or thing
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Scruple
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An uneasy feeling arising from one's conscience or principles
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Skewed
Definition
Distorted or slanted in a particular direction, unblanced
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Solace
Definition
Comfort in sorrow or misfortune
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Squander
Definition
To spend or use wastefully
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Subside
Definition
To become less agitated
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Subtle
Definition
Difficult to detect, usually because of the clever means employed, not obvious
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Succumb
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To become overpowered, surrender
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Tentative
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Uncertain, hesitant
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Tether
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A rope or chain connecting two things
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Throng
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A large gathering;crowd
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Tirade
Definition
A long, angry speech, especially one that criticizes
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Trepidation
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Fearful of something
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Uncanny
Definition
Remarkable to an unusual degree
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Ungainly
Definition
Lacking grace, clumsy
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Vestibule
Definition
A small entryway within a building
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Vexation
Definition
Anger or annoyance
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Vile
Definition
Evil;disgusting
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Virtuoso
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Characteristic of a person with masterly knowledge or skill
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Wary
Definition
Cautious or watchful
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Whim
Definition
A sudden impulse or notion
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