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EHS Week 5
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24
Education
11th Grade
09/29/2014

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rampant
Definition
going unchecked, widespread
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inane
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foolish
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ethics
Definition
code of principles
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concur
Definition
agree
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clandestine
Definition
secret, undercover
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flagrant
Definition
outrageous, glaringly bad
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admonish
Definition
to warn, to reprove
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duress
Definition
compulsion, force
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culprit
Definition
the guilty person
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inexorable
Definition
inflexible, unrelenting
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egregious
Definition
remarkably bad
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distraught
Definition
mentally confused, crazed
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duplicity
Definition

cunning, trickery

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acrimonious
Definition
bitter
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paucity
Definition
scarcity
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elicit
Definition
to draw forth
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pernicious
Definition
harmful, causing injury
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tolerate
Definition
to put up with , to bear
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construe
Definition
to make a deduction, to infer
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impunity
Definition
freedom from punishment
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stock in trade
Definition

the goods, tools and other requisites of a profession

 

A quick wit and a warm smile were the salesman's stock in trade.

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to take down a peg
Definition

to take the conceit out of a braggart (ships colors used to be raised or lowered by pegs--the higher the colors, the greater the honor)

 

The alumni thought they had a great basketball team, but our varsity took them down a peg.

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to pass the buck
Definition

to evade responsibility (the "buck" may have been a piece of buckshot passed from one poker player to another to keep track of whose turn it was to deal)

 

He always gives me a straight answer and never tries to pass the buck.

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to lionize a person
Definition

to make a big fuss over someone (the lions at the Tower of London were considered its main attraction)

 

When the famous poet Dylan Thomas visited the United States, he was lionized wherever he lectured.

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