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Words 36
Limbo
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English
10th Grade
04/16/2009

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limbo
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n an intermediate place or state
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hermetic
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adj airtight
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litigious
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adj preferring a legal settlement of disputes
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mandate
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n wishes of an electorate expressed by election results
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resolute
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adj marked by firm determination
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manfold
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adj of many kinds
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millennium
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n a hoped fo period of joy peace and prosperity
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nonplus
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v. put at a loss, perplex, baffle
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pejorative
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adj disparging, downgrading
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milieu
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n environment or surroundings
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peripatetic
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adj given to walking about
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prodigy
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a person of exceptional talents
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sage
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n elderly wise man
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reverie
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n daydream
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sanctimonious
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adj pompously, ostentatiously righteous
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benevolent
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adj, charitable, kind
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sartorial
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adj. pertaining to clothes
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depravity
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n. moral curruption
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singular
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adj. rare, extraordinary
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plausible
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adj giving a deceptive impression of truth
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soporific
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adj. tending to induce sleep
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emissary
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n. a person sent on a mission
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stratum
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n level in heirarchy
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tenacity
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n. persistency
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tortuous
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adj. not straightforward, ciruitous
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allegory
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n. a kind a narrative whose literal events setteng and characters, stand for a coherent order of abstract conscepts or events.
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