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English vocab for honors 9-10th grade.
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General Vocab
9th Grade
10/29/2009

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volatile (adj.)
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unstable, unpredictable, explosive
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apropos (adj.)
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appropriate to the situation; apt
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pillory (part., v.)
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to punish, hold up to public scorn
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cabal (n.)
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a scheme or plot, a group of plotters
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officious (adj.)
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meddlesome, bossy, overbearing
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expurgate (v.)
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to remove obscenity, purify, censor
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tautology (n.)
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a repitition, a redundancy
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beatify (v.)
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to bless, make happy, or ascribe a virtue to; regard as sanity (v.)
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sanguine (adj.)
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cheerful, confident, optimistic
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excoriate (v.)
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to flay, strip off skin; denounce sharply (v.)
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boorish (adj.)
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crude, offensive, rude
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luculent (adj.)
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easily understood, lucid, clear
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palliate (v.)
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to make something appear less serious, to alleviate, to gloss over, put a positive spin on
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abstruse (adj.)
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difficult to comprehend; obscure
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sedulous (adj.)
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diligent, painstaking, devoted to a task
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alacrity (n.)
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cheerful promptness
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incredulous (adj.)
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skeptical, unwilling to believe
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abeyance (n.)
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suspended action
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delineate (v.)
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to portray, depict, sketch out
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audacious (adj.)
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daring; bold
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personable (adj.)
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pleasing in appearance; attractive
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torpid (adj.)
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sleeping, sluggish, lethargic, dormant
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imprecation (n.)
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an invocation of evil; a curse
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anachronism (n.)
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something out of place for its time, a relic
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tawdry (adj.)
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cheap, gaudy, showy, tacky
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exigency (n.)
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emergency, an urgent situation
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nascent (adj.)
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coming into existence, emerging
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suppliant (adj., adv.)
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asking humbly, beseeching
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tyro (n.)
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novice, amateur
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iconoclastic (adj.)
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attacking cherished beliefs
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