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10th Grade
10/26/2008

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alias
Definition
an assumed or additional name
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alien
Definition
Strange Foreign
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ambience
Definition
a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or things
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appall
Definition
Weaken, Fail
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apparition
Definition
an unusual or unexpectied sight
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argot
Definition
an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group
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artifice
Definition
clever or artful skill
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atone
Definition
to supply satisfaction for
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bask
Definition
to lie in or expose oneself to a pleasant warmth
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brandish
Definition
to shake or wave menacingly
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burnish
Definition
to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing
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caper
Definition
to leap or prance about in a playful manner
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caprice
Definition
a sudden, impulsive, and seeminglyunmotivated notion or action
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circumspect
Definition
careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences
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circumvent
Definition
to mangage to get around especially by ingenuity and stratagem
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citadel
Definition
a fortress that commands a city
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collusion
Definition
secret agreement or cooperation especially for an illegal organization
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dirge
Definition
a song or hymn of grief or lamentation
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docile
Definition
easily led or managed
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dormant
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temporarily in abeyyance yet capable of being activated

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dredge
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to die,gather, or pull out with or as if with a dredge
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edict
Definition
a proclamation having the force of law
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edifice
Definition
a large or massive structure
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engross
Definition
to copy or write in a large hand
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evasion
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expanse
Definition
great extent of something spread out
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expiate
Definition
to put an end to
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filial
Definition
having or assuming the relation of a child or offspring
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harry
Definition
to torment by or as if by constant attacks
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homily
Definition
a usually short sermon
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importenet
Definition
Sterile
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impudent
Definition
lacking modesty
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intrinsic
Definition
belonging to the essential nature or constitution or a thing
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jut
Definition
to extend out up or forward
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laden
Definition
to put a load or burden on or in
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latent
Definition
present and capable of becoming though not now visible obvious or active
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lop
Definition
material cut away from a tree
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mediate
Definition
to effect by action as an intermediary
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parry
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to evade or turn aside something
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pelt

Definition
to strike with a succession of blows or missiles
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qualm
Definition
a sudden attack of illness faintness or nausea
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query
Definition
 a question in the mind
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rectify
Definition
to purify especially by repeated or fractional distillation
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risque
Definition
verging on impropriety or indecency
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row
Definition
a noisy disturbance or quarrel
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rue
Definition
REGRET , SORROW
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saturnine
Definition
born under or influenced astrologically by the planet saturn
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schism
Definition
Division, Separation
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stature
Definition
natural height in an upright position
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subsist
Definition
to have or acquire the necessitiies of life
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throe
Definition
a hard or painful struggle
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tittle
Definition
a point or small sign used as a diacritical mark in writing or printing
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tractabl
Definition
capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled
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vacuity
Definition
an empty space
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vagary
Definition
an erratic, unpredicable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion
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vagrant
Definition
one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support
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vigil
Definition

an act or period of watching or surveillance

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vortex
Definition
a mass of fluid with a whirling or circular motion that tends to form a cavity or vacuum in the center or the circle and to draw toward this cavity or vacuum bodies subject to its action.
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wraith
Definition
the exact likeness of a living person seen usually just before death as an apparition
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