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Word Wright Challenge
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43
English
12th Grade
10/06/2013

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Manse
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The house and land occupied by a minister or parson

The dwelling of a landholder; mansion

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Endorphin
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Any of a group of peptides occuring in the brain and other tissues of vertebrates, and resembling opiates, that react with the brain's opiate receptors to raise the pain threshold
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Predecessor
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Something succeeded or replaced by something else

An ancestor; Forefather

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Beleaguer
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To surround with military forces

To surround or beset as with troubles

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Venerable
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Commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity
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Diligent
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Constant in effort to accomplish something; attentive and persistent in doing anything
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Connote
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To signify or suggest certain meanings or ideas in addition to the explicit or primary meaning

To involve as a condition or accompanient (injury connotes pain)

To have significance only by association as with another word

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Proselytize
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To convert from one religious faith to another; Recruit
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Ascetic
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A person who dedicates their life to religion and thusly has a simply lifestyle in which they practice extreme self-denial from material satisfaction like a munk
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Cleave
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To remain faithful or adhere closely or stick or cling (followed by to)
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Vessel
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A concave utensil such as a cup, bowl, pitcher, or vase used for holding liquids or other contents

A craft larger than a ship or boat for travelling on water

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Double Entendre
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A word or expression with a double meaning that can be interpreted in two ways (one meaning is often risque)
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Contingent
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Dependent for existence on something that is not yet certain (followed by on or upon)
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Ethos
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The character of disposition of a community, group, person, etc.
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Beget
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To generate; to produce as an effect
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Benighted
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Intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened
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Perennial
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Lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring, perpetual, recurrent
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Valor
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Boldness or determination in facing great danger, especially in battle; heroic courage or bravery
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Strata
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Multiple layers, levels, or meanings
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Emporium
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Ostentatious
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Stewardship
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Corporal
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Assiduous
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Amorphous
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Withal
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Wallow
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Wages
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Fluctuate
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Mammon
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Legacy
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Pectoral
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Incessant
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Insidious
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Conflation
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Sloth
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Crusade
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Botch (noun)
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Vortex/Vortices
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Valor
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Boldness of determination in facing great danger, especially in battle; Heroic courage; Bravery
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Hale
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Free from disease or infirmity; Robust; Vigorous
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Sire
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Male horse

A respectful term of address to a male sovereign

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Dearth
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An inadequate supply; Scarcity; Lack
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