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Brave New World Vocab
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12th Grade
05/09/2009

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Innocuous
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Harmless; producing no injury
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Solecism

Definition
Nonstandard usage or grammatical construction; a violation of etiquette
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Rapacious
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Excessively grasping or covetous; voracious
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Premonition
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Forewarning; previous notice or warning
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Viviparous
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Producing living young instead of eggs
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Senility
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Mental infirmity or decline related to old age
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Voluptuous
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Arising from sensuous or sensual gratification; luxurious
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Volte-face
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A reversal in policy
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Incessant
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Continuing or following without interruption
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Surreptitious
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Done, made, or acquired by stealth; clandestine
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Effusive
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Excessively demonstrative; gushing
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Ascetic
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Practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and spiritual discipline
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Promiscuous
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Indiscriminate; not restricted to one sexual partner
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Sycophant
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A servile self-seeking flatterer: parasite
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Symbiosis
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A cooperative mutually beneficial relationship
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Enmity
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Active and mutual hatred or ill will; hostility
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Ephemeral
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Short lived, fleeting; transient
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Self-Aggrandizement
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To enhance self's power, worth, wealth, position; personally to exploit a situation for one's benefit
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Esoteric
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Designed for or understood by the specially initiated
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Eschew
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To avoid habitually, especially on moral or practical grounds; shun
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Callow
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Lacking adult sophistication; immature
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Anachronism
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An error in chronology especially misplacing persons, events objects, customs in regard to each other
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Chagrin
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Disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment or failure
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