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Dante Club Vocab 1
The Dante Club Vocab 1 Ms.Land's class
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Literature
11th Grade
11/08/2008

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Triumvirate
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any association of three in office or authority; any group or set of three
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Preternatural
Definition
of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal: supernatural
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Purgatoried
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any condition or place of temporary punishment, suffering, expiation, or the like
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Ruffians
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Tough or rowdy persons
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Adjudged
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decided by a judicial opinion or sentence
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Regicidal
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the killing of a king
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Litterateurs
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a literary person, esp. a writer of literary works
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Theonomy
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government or rule by God
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Tripartite
Definition
divided into or consisting of three parts
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Coterie
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an exclusive group; clique
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Anecdote
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a short account of a particular incident or event of an interesting or amusing nature, often biographical
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Chiaroscuro
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the distribution of light and shade in a picture
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Cantos
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one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem
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Collusive
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fraudulently contrived by agreement
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Lyceum
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an institution for popular education providing discussions, lectures, concerts, etc.
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Puerile
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childishly foolish; immature or trivial
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Corporeal
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of or pertaining to the physical body
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Paltry
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ridiculously or insultingly small
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Nimbus
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A splendid atmosphere or aura
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Calamanco
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a glossy woolen fabric checkered or brocaded in the warp so that the pattern shows on one side only, much used in the 18th century
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Dilettante
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a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, esp. in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler
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