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Week 16 Vocab
Vocab week 16 for Mrs. Brady
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English
9th Grade
01/05/2015

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Alienate
Definition
To make unfriendly,
Isolate
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Abstain
Definition
To refrain,
Keep oneself from
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Assess
Definition
To estimate;
To impose a tax, fine, payment
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Assimilate
Definition
To absorb,
incorporate,
make or become like or part of (that which incorporates it)
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Cajole
Definition
To coax or wheedle,
Persuade by flattery
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Concede
Definition
To admit, yield, grant
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Condescend
Definition
To come down to another's level,
deign
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Deprecate
Definition
To disapprove,
Protest against
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Dissipate
Definition
To dispel, waste, live dissolutely
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Elicit
Definition
To draw forth (information)
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Emaciate
Definition
To make very lean
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Exasperate
Definition
To irritate thoroughly,
Infuriate
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Altercation
Definition
An angry dispute or quarrel
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Anguish
Definition
Intense suffering
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Apparition
Definition
Specter or phantom,
A sudden appearing
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Barrage
Definition
A shower (of artillery fire),
A heavy onslaught
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Clairvoyant
Definition
One who has unusual or preternatural insight
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Duplicity
Definition
Double-Dealing,
Deception
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Facade
Definition
The front or face
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Holocaust
Definition
Widespread destruction,
especially by fire
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