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Advancing Vocabulary Skills, Chapter 5
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10th Grade
09/12/2011

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corroborate
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to support; to confirm; strengthen with further evidence; provide proof of
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charlatan
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con artist; a fake; a person who falsely claims to have some special skill or knowledge
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disseminate
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to spread or scatter widely; distribute
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diverge
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to separate; to branch off in different directions from the same staring point; to become different
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dormant
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not active; inactive; alive but not actively growing, as if sleep
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hoist
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to raise; to lift; especially with some mechanical means, like a cable
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illicit
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unlawful; illegal
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irrevocable
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not reversible; not able to be canceled or undone; irreversible
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precipitate
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to bring on; to cause to happen quickly, suddenly, or sooner than expected
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proliferation
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a rapid increase or spread
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