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ch. 6-10
cather in the rye vocab
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English
11th Grade
10/13/2008

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Lenoleum
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(noun) a hard, washable floor covering formed by coating or burlap or canvas with linseed oil, powdered cork, and rosin, and adding pigmetns to create the desired colors and patterns
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Hospitality
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(noun) the quality or disposition of recieving and treating guests and strangers in a warm, friendly, generous way
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Fiend  
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(noun) 1. a person or thing that causes mischief or annoyance. 2. a person who is extremely addicted to some pernicious habit
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Corridor
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(noun) a gallery or passage parts of a building; hallway
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Canasta
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(noun) a card game for two to six players, related to rummy and requiring two or three deck of cards
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Janitor
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(noun) a person employed in an apartment house, office building, school, etc., to clean the public areas, remove garbage, and do minor repairs; caretaker
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Conscientious
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(adjective) controlled by or done according to conscience; scrupulous; meticulous; careful; painstaking; particular
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Phony
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(adjective) not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit
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Lagoon
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(noun) an area of shallow water seperated from the sea by low sandy
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Incognito
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(adjective) having one's identity concealed, as under an assumed name, esp. to avoid notice or formal attention
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Brassiere
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(noun) a woman's undergarmet for supporting the breasts
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Burlesque
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(noun) an artistic condition, esp. literary or dramatic, that, for the sack of laughter, vulgarizes lofty material or treats ordinary material with mock dignity (adjective) involving ludicrous or mocking treatment of a solemn subject
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Psychic
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(adjective) of or pertaining to the human soul or mind; mental
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Brassy
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(adjective) insolent, saucy, forward
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Intoxication
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(adjective) exhilarating; exciting
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Verification
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(noun) evidence that establishes or confirms the accuracy or truth of something
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Jitterbug
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(noun) a strenuously acrobatic dance consisting of a few standardized steps augemented by twirls, solits, somersaults, etc., popular esp. in the early 1940's and performed cheifly to boogie-woogie and swing
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