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English
9th Grade
02/24/2008

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mutiny
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forcible or passive resistance to lawful authority
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choler
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Anger
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foe
Definition
Adversary, opponent
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brawl
Definition
a noisy quarrel or fight
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canker
Definition
a source of corruption or debasement
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forfeit
Definition
to lose or lose the right to by some error
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defiance
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challenge, willingness to contend or fight
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scorn
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open dislike and disrespect or derision often mixed with indignation
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pursue
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to follow in order to overtake,capture, or defeat
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shun
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to avoid deliberately and especially habitually
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augment
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to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense
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portentous
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being a grave or serious matter
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importune
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to press or urge with trouble persistance
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envious
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feeling or showing envy
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shrift
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a remission of sins pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of reonciliation
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transgression
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an act, progress, or instance of transgressing
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propagate
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to cause to to spread out and affect a greater number or greater area
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assail
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to attack violently with blows or words
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posterity
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the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation
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languish
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to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated
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heretic
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one who dissents from an accepted belief or doctrine

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splendor
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great brightness or luster

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warrant
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to declare or maintain with certainty

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benefice
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an ecclesiastical office to which the revenue from an endowment is attached
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idle
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lacking worth or basis
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vain

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 marked by futility or ineffectualness
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antic
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and attention-drawing often wildly playful or funny act
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solemnity
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formal or ceremonious observance
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disparagement
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 something that derogates or casts in a bad light
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scathe
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to do harm to
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purge

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to make free of something unwanted
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trespass
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an unwarranted infringement
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loathe
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to dislike greatly and often wth disgust or insolence
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esteem
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high regard
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boisterous
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marked by or expressive of exuberance and high spirts
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endure
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to undergo hardship with out giving in

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