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Week 4 vocabulary
"A" Vocab words
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English
11th Grade
10/03/2011

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Abandoned
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Wholly free from restraint.
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Abortive
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Failing to produce the intended result.
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Abscond
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Leave hurriedly and secretly, typically to avoid detection or arrest.
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Accretion
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An increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition; growth in size or extent.
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Acme
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The point at which someone or something is best, perfect, or most successful.
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Actuate
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To put into motion or action; activate
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Acuity
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Sharpness or keeness of thought, vision, or hearing.
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Acumen
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The ability to make good judgements and quick decisions, typically in a particular domain.
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Adamant
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Refusing to be presuaded or to change one's mind.
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Adept
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Very skilled or proficient at something.
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Admonish
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Advise or urge.
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Adulation
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Obsequious flattery; excessive admiration or praise.
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Allay
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Diminish or put at rest.
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Amity
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A friendly relationship.
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Anomaly
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Something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected.
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Aplomb
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Self-confidence or assurance, esp. when in a demanding situation.
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Appropriate
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Take (something) for one's own usem typically without the owner's permission.
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Acrane
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Understood by fewl mysterious or secret.
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Ascent
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A climb or walk to the summit of a mountain or hill.
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Awry
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Away from the approriate, planned,or expected course; amiss.
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Avant Guarde
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New and unusual or experimental ideas, esp. in the arts, or the people introuducing them.
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