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AP English Vocab
Vocabulary Page 12
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12th Grade
10/13/2008
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pungent
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sharp or biting in taste or smell or emotion
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piquant
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spicy, pleasantly hot, charmingly provocative
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terse, succinct
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concise, short and to the point
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lucid
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clear in terms of concepts or intellect
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harbinger
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an announcer, a herald who announces what will come
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surfeit
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an overabundance of
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to surfeit
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to overindulge in
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sere
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withered, dried
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to desiccate
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to dry out
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desiccated
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dried out and wasted
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fervid, fervent, ardent
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with burning passion
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ardor, fervor
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burning, flaming passion
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tepid
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lukewarm
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to truncate
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to cut short, to end abruptly
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feisty
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full of p and v, willing to dust it up and fight, showing strongwilled spirit
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elan
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impetuous ardor, dash
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eclat
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brilliance of success, showy display, acclaim
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wary, chary
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cautiously watchful
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aesthetics
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sense or understanding of beauty
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portly
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handsomely fat
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calamity, debacle, cataclysm
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total disaster or catastrophe
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depravity
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moral corruption
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depraved
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morally corrupt
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perverse
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stubbornly and knowingly staying in the wrong
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munificent, munificence
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the most magnificent liberality or generosity
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flaccid
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limp, lacking muscle tone
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a kirk
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archaic word for chapel or church
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