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Bird Vocabulary #2
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English
12th Grade
03/12/2009

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subordinate
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Adjective: placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank
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Oligarchy
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noun: a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
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Temperance
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noun: moderation or self-restraint in action, statement, etc.; self-control.
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exempt
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verb: to free from an obligation or liability to which others are subject; release
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Fiction
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noun: something feigned, invented, or imagined; a made-up story
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syntax
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noun: the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
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Libel
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Noun: defamation by written or printed words, pictures, or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures.
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immortal
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adjective: not mortal; not liable or subject to death; undying
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bizarre
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Adjective: markedly unusual in appearance, style, or general character and often involving incongruous or unexpected elements; outrageously or whimsically strange; odd
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wary
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adjective: watchful; being on one's guard against danger
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consensus
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majority of opinion
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impertinent
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Adjective: intrusive or presumptuous, as persons or their actions; insolently rude; uncivil
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rendezvous
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noun: an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
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renaissance
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noun: the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
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unity
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noun: a whole or totality as combining all its parts into one
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