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ACT vocab 3
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11th Grade
11/01/2011
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condescending
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treating people as weak or inferior
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contemptuous
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feeling hatred; scornful
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despotic
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exercising absolute power; tyrannical
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dictatorial
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domineering; oppressively overbearing
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disdain
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contempt, scorn; to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
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haughty
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arrogant; vainly proud
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imperious
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arrogantly domineering overbearing
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patronizing
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treating in a condescending manner
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convoluted
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intricate; complex
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cryptic
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difficult to comprehend
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futile
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having no useful purpose; pointless
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impede
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to slow the progress of
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obscure
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relatively unknown; to conceal or make indistinct
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quandary
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a state of uncertainty or perplexity
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