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A Separate Peace Vocabulary
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9th Grade
05/01/2006
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amiable
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having a friendly, pleasant manner
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bamtam
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numerous small fowl
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capacious
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roomy and spacious
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deign
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to think proper to one's dignity
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emissiary
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a person sent on a mission to represent another
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encroach
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to force oneslef onto another's property or rights
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exhort
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to urge strongly
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forlorn
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sad, lonely
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genial
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cheerful, pleasant
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inebriate
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drunk, one who is drunk
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insidious
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awaiting a chance to trap
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idiosyncratic
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behaving like a person
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inveigle
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to aquire by flattery
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main
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to cripple
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nonentity
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a nobody
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prodigious
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immense in size
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reverberate
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series of echoes
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reverie
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daydream, lost in thought
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salient
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sticking outward
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solace
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comfort in times of grief
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sultry
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hot, humid
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specter
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a ghost
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veer
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to change direction
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venerable
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deserving honor or respect
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grovel
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to creep or lie face down
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