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A Separate Peace: Vocab
Vocabulary of A Separate Peace from Prentice Hall
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10th Grade
03/01/2006
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tacit
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unspoken, not expressed or declared openly
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vibrantly
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vigorously, energetically, throbbingly filled with life
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capacious
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roomy, spacious
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contentious
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quarrelsome
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droll
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amusing in an odd or ironic way
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prodigious
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huge or powerful
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rhetorically
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as if asking a question only for effect, without expecting an answer
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anarchy
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lawlessness, disorder
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solace
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something that comforts
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vulnerable
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sensitive
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detonate
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to explode violently and loudly
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delirious
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state of mental confusion, hallucinations
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ludicrous
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laughably absurd
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erratic
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irregular, not following a regular pattern
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contempt
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scorn
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discern
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to recognize
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vagaries
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odd or unexpected actions or ideas
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culminate
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bring to the highest point of interest
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aesthete
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someone highly sensitive to the arts and beauty
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querulous
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inclined to find fault, complaining
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surmise
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to guess, imagine or infer something with evidence
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guileful
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deceitful, tricky
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incongruity
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lack of fitness or appropriateness
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decrepit
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broken down or worn out by old age or long use
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impervious
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not affected by
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parody
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poor or weak imitation
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assimilate
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to absorb into one's thinking
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