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Vocab Chapter 1 Words
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09/11/2009

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Term
Martydom
Definition

1.)Extreme pain or suffering.

2.)Mar-tee-dumb

3.)The mother that is in labor is expirienceing martydom.

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Utmost
Definition

1.)The Maximum

2.)Ut-Most

3.)I used the utmost gas that my car will consume at the gas station.

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Induced
Definition

1.)To convince otherwise

2.)con-vin-ce

3.)I induced my English teacher not to hold class intil my friends got here.

Term
Destitute
Definition

1.)Poor

2.)Dis-toot

3.)When the stock market had crashed, it left thousands destitute

Term
Autonomy
Definition

1.)Independence

2.)Au-toe-no-me

3.)I have autonomy from my family now that I am 18 years old.

Term
Ambivalence
Definition

1.)To have mixed feelings about a situation or idea.

2.)am-bi-va-lance

3.)I have ambivalence about Obama being president.

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Perscuted
Definition

1.)To be treated unfairly

2.)per-su-cute

3.)The blacks were perscuted when they were used as slaves.

Term
Magnitude
Definition

1.)greatness in signifiance, size, or rank

2.)Mag-ni-tu-duh

3.)The magnitude of the new truck ended up sticking out of the parking space.

Term
Placating
Definition

1.)To Calm down

2.)Play-kate-in-guh

3.)The president placated the angry protestors by giving them what they wanted.

Term
Ascertain
Definition

1.)To find out the definate answer

2.)As-er-tain

3.)I had to ask my math teacher how to ascertain this assition problem.

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