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Crime and Punishment Vocab
Vocab words from Crime and Punishment
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English
12th Grade
09/13/2012

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Affable
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good-natured sociable
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Amiable
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friendly and pleasent in temperament
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Audacious
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Daring;bold
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Calamity 
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Disaster 
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Catercorner 
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placed or situated diagonally
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Commiserate
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Express or feel pity
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Conspicuous
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clearly visible
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Coy
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archly or affectedly shy
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Disheveled
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untidy;ruffled;disordered
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Estranged
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no longer on friendly terms with someone
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Exhort
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strongly urge someone to do something 
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Expound
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present or explain a theory in detail
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Glib
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Using words easily, but without much thought
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Haughty 
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Behaving in an arrogat way and superrior way towards others
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Inarticulate
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unable to express one's ideas
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Indignant
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feeling or showing offense
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insolent
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rude or disrespectful
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Loquacious
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talkative
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Magnanimous
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generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival/;ess powerful person
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Presentiment
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a feeling that something undesirable is going to happen
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Taciturn
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saying little; uncommunicative
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