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AP English Vocab
Vocabulary Page 15
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12th Grade
09/01/2008

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smut
Definition
pornography
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feckless
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weak and ineffective, incompetent, irresponsible
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vagabond
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a wanderer, a peripatetic person without a home, a tramp
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wont, wonted
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customary, habitual, usual
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avatar
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an embodiment, as of a quality or concept; an archetype: or a Hindu god taking an animal form
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winsome
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innocently charming and engaging
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verdant
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green, green with growing plants
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verdure
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the greenness of growing plants, vegetation
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bourn
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a boundary or limit, or a stream or brook
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a rill
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a small brook
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facetious
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joking, not serious, not to be taken literally, jocular
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chagrin
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acute vexation or embarrassment due to disappointment or failure; verb-to vex through embarrassment, to mortify
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dubious
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doubtful, inclined to doubt, questionable, hesitating
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squelch
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to squash, put down and suppress, to make a thickly splashing sound, crush
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to vaunt
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to brag, to speak vaingloriously of
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in fine fettle
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in a good state or condition
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to tout
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to describe or advertise boastfully; publicize or promote; praise extravagantly
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serendipity
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discovering desirable things accidentally, good fortune or luck
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chimerical
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wildly fanciful or imaginative, unreal, visionary
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chimera
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a horrible or unreal creature of the imagination; a vain or idle fancy: monster of disparate parts
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maelstrom
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a large, powerful, or destructive whirlpool. something resembling a maelstrom; a violent, disordered, or turbulent state of affairs
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gloaming
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twilight, dusk
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