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Idiotic
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Literature
8th Grade
02/04/2011

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Foray
Definition
An attack that happens quickly and suddenly leaving the opponent little time to react.
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Puerile

Definition
 something to do with childhood or having to do with a child.
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Bevy
Definition

A group of birds, as quails, larks, and roebucks, In close association. 

 

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Gravitate
Definition
to have a natural tendency or be attracted too.
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Senile
Definition
showing a decline or deterioration of physical strength or mental functioning
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Zealot
Definition
A person who shows zeal
A fanatic or extremist
A member of a radical, warlike, ardently patriotic group of Jews in Judea
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Usurp
Definition
to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right:
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Scrutinize
Definition
To examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
to conduct a scrutiny, examine closely
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Discriminating
Definition
differentiating; noting differences or distinctions with nicety; discerning;
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Surveillance
Definition
To view something, close observation,
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Inchoate
Definition
not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
just begun; incipient.
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retinue
Definition
1. A body of retainers in attendance upon an important personage; suite.
2. a body of aides and retainers attending an important person, royalty, etc
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Mercenary
Definition
adj: working or acting merely for money or other reward; venal.
hired to serve in a foreign army, guerrilla organization, etc.

noun: a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army.
any hireling.
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Recoil
Definition
to draw back, to spring or fly back
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Prodigious
Definition
extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree,wonderful or marvelous.
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Impel
Definition
to drive or urge forward; presson; incite or sonstrain to action
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Amorphous
Definition
to have no specific shape; formless
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Flotsam
Definition

Remaniants of the wreckage of a ship, floatin debris, of no big importance

 

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Wrest
Definition
to quickly and violently pull away
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Deter
Definition
to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding
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Confiscate
Definition
to seize,grab, take over, hijack, steal
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Largess
Definition
ones ability to bestow gifts upon another
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Mawkish
Definition
having a mildly sickening flavor; slightly nauseating.
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Connoisseur

Definition
a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments
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Philantropic
Definition
charity
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