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English
12th Grade
10/02/2007

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Verdant
Definition
green with growing
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Modicum
Definition
a small quantity or portion
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Aridity
Definition
dryness, barrenness
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Molify
Definition
soften; allay someone's rage
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Cacophony
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unpleasant, harsh, discordant sound
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Shoddy
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of interior material; lacking the quality claimed; sham
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Shrew
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a scolding, brawling women
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Discursive
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passive from one subject to another
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Shibboleth
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criterion; test
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Buttress
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projecting support of wall or building; support, prop
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Disparaging
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depreciating, lessening in rank
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Solicitous
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showing care, attention, concern; full of anxious desire, eagerness, apprehension
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Disheveled
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disarranged; untidy; tousled; rumpled
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Dissemble
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to disguise; to pretend; to simulate
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Soiree
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eventing party; gathering
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Disseminated
Definition
scattered, broadcast, spread
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Somnambulist
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one who walks and performs other actions during sleep
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Soporific
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causing sleepiness
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Doleful
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sad, sarrowful, mourning
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Specious
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apparently just or correct, but actually not so
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Flout
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mock; insult; scoff
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Dogma
Definition
set of ideas and beliefs
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Dulcet
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melodious; soft; soothing
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Spurious
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not genuine; counterfeit
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Ebullient
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boiling up; bubbling; effervescent
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Diaphanous
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characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through; characterized by extreme delecacy of form; insubstancial; vague
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Angust
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marked by majestic dignity or grandeur
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Immutability

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not being capable of or susceptible to change
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Placidity
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serenely free of interruption or disturbance
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Sententiously

Definition
given to or abounding in excessive moralizing
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Insipid
Definition
lacking taste or savor; tasteless; lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge
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Lugubrious
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mournful, especially exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful; dismal
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Drollery
Definition
whimsical humor; having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality
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Declivity
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downward inclination; a downward slope

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Recrudescence
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a new outbreak after a period of abatement or inactivity; renewal
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Alacrity
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cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness
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Rapacious
Definition
excessively grasping or covetous; lining on prey; ravenous
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Effaced
Definition
to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface; to make onself modestly or shyly inconspicuous
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Moribund
Definition
being in the state of dying; approaching death; being in a state of inactivity or obsolescence
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Tumolt
Definition
disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd, usually with uproar and confusion of voices; commotion; turbulent upprising; riot
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Volubility
Definition
easily rolling or turning; rotation; characterized by ready or rapid speech; glib; fluent
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Deplorable
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lamentable; deserving censure or contempt; wretched

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Selpulchral
Definition
suited to or suggesting of a tomb; funereal
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Superciliousness
Definition
being coolly and patronizingly haughty
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Indefatigable
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untiring; incapable of being tired

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Conflagration
Definition
fire, especially a large disastrous fire; a conflict of war
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Precipitantly
Definition
falling, flowing, or rushing with steep decent; exhibiting violent or unwise speed
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Commingling
Definition
blending thoroughly into a harmonious whole
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Festoon
Definition
decorate; adorn (V); a decorative chain or strip hanging between two points; a carved, molded, or painted ornament representing a decorative chain
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Inextricable
Definition
forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free; incapable of being disentangled or untied
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