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1st Semester Final Vocab
Winter Final Vocabulary Words
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English
11th Grade
12/08/2009
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Ruse
 Definition
A trick
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Demagogue
 Definition
Political leader who seeks support by stirring up people's emotions
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Foible
 Definition
A weakness in character
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Malinger
 Definition
Pretends to be sick in order to avoid duties
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Animosity
 Definition
Extreme hatred to something
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Eradicate
 Definition
To wipe out
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Aggrandize
 Definition
To seem to make greater
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Emulate
 Definition
To rival successfully
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Enmity
 Definition
The bitter feelings of an enimy
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Abscond
 Definition
To leave quickly and secretly
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Approbation
 Definition
Approval
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Titular
 Definition
Held by virtue of a title
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Exhort
 Definition
To urge or advise
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Exegesis
 Definition
Explanation of a written work
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Prurient
 Definition
Having an excessive interest in matter of sex
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Efface
 Definition
To wipe out
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Ebullient
 Definition
cheerful
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Recompense
 Definition
To make a payment to
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Inchoate
 Definition
Just begun, developing
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Akimbo
 Definition
Hands on hips; elbows facing outward
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Antithesis
 Definition
The exact opposite
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Corroborate
 Definition
To confirm; to support
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Dichotomy
 Definition
Division into two parts
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Dissonance

 Definition
Lack of harmony
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Non Sequitor
 Definition
Statement having nothing to do with what was previously said
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Paragon
 Definition
A perfect example
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Rescinded
 Definition
Cancelled
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Altruism
 Definition
An unselfish concern for others
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Logistics
 Definition
The way details are handled
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Progeny
 Definition
Offspring; children
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Acquiesce
 Definition
To accept without protest
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Clandestine
 Definition
Done secretively
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Obviate
 Definition
To prevent or eliminate difficulties
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Onerous
 Definition
troublesome
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Opprobrium
 Definition
disgrace by shameful conduct
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Effrontery
 Definition
shameless
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Salient
 Definition
Prominent
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Commensurate
 Definition
Corresponding in amount
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Inane
 Definition
lacking sense; silly
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Ossify
 Definition
to become rigid in habits
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Ostensible
 Definition
pretended
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Incandescent
 Definition
aglow with ardor
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Overwrought
 Definition
extremely excited or agritated
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Complement
 Definition
something that completes or makes perfect
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Oxymoron
 Definition
Figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjunction
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Acerbic
 Definition
Sour in taste
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Sedentary
 Definition
Characterized by a sitting position
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Panegyric
 Definition
formal or elaborate praise
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Tome
 Definition
a book
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Plight
 Definition
a difficult situation
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Ennui
 Definition
feeling of utter weariness
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Penury
 Definition
Extreme poverty
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Tacit
 Definition
implied without being said
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Taciturn
 Definition
silent in expression
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Deleterious
 Definition
dangerous to health
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Prescient
 Definition
Knowing something before it happens
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Prevaricate
 Definition
To speak falsely or misleadingly
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Aspersion
 Definition
damaging criticism
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Fatuous
 Definition
Foolish
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Fecund
 Definition
Capable of producing children; fertile
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Proclivity
 Definition
natural; a habit
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Loquacious
 Definition
tending to talk too much
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Lucid
 Definition
easily understood
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Forestall
 Definition
to prevent in advance
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Lugubrious
 Definition
mournful; sounding sad
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Diffident
 Definition
lacking confidence in oneself
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Banal
 Definition
boring; lacking originality
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Mortify
 Definition
to make someone embarassed
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Cadre
 Definition
a group of activists in a revolutionary party
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Venue
 Definition
a place for an event
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Elegy
 Definition
a mournful poem
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Meditation
 Definition
continuous contemplation on a deep subject
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Void
 Definition
an empty space
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Evade
 Definition
to escape by trickery
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Laconic
 Definition
using few words
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Anathema
 Definition
something greatly hated
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Covert
 Definition
not openly practiced
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Disdain
 Definition
to look upon with content
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Fatalism
 Definition
acceptance of all things as inevitable
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Fawn
 Definition
to seek by servile demeanor
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Burlesque
 Definition
an artistic composition for the sake of laughter
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Chaff
 Definition
worthless matter
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Satire
 Definition
the use of irony to humiliate someone
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Sardonic
 Definition
characterized by bitter mockery
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Homage
 Definition
respect shown
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