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AP Language Vocab #4
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English
11th Grade
10/07/2009

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angualrity
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n. sharp corners
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cataclysmic
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adj. disastrous
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depredation
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n. act of plundering
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engrossed
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v. occupy completely
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fibrous
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adj. threadlike
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hygienic
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adj. conducive to good health; sanitary
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lunar
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adj. of or pertaining to the moon: the lunar orbit
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meteoric
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adj. pertaining to, or consisting of meteors
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perceptible
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adj. capable of being percieved; recognizable; appreciable
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speculator
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n. a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation
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superfluity
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n. a superabundant or excessive amount
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tortuous
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adj. full of twists, turns, or bends, twisting, winding or crooked
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essence
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n. the basic, real, and invariable nature of a thing or its significant individual feature(s)
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incipient
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adj. beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage
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manifestation
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n. state of being; outward perceptible indications; materialization
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refracted
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v. determine the refractive condition of (an eye)
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dipsomania
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n. an irrestible, typerically periodic craving for alcoholic drink
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kleptomania
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n. irrestible impulse to steal stemming from emotional distrubance rather than economic need.
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