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English Iv vocab seven
vocab 7
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English
12th Grade
01/19/2016

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Term

Abjure

(verb)

 

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Definition

To renounce or give up formally

 

The football team Abjured the game in the 4th quarter.

Term

Amorphous

(Addjective)

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Definition

1.Without a definite shape, boundary, or a characte. 

 

 

 

The child was very good his/her part amorphous.

Term

Animus

(Noun)

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Definition

1. An attitude or spirit within a person that strongly infuences him or her.

 

2. Deep-seated ill will

 

The people animus about how they would cope with a death in the family.

 

Term

Dichotomy

(Noun)

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Definition

Divison into two distinct parts or groups.

 

The  people wanted dichotomy in their town.

Term

Exemplar

(Noun)

 

Definition

An example or model, especially an ideal one.

 

The painter wanted an exemplar  for the art room.

Term

Herculean 

(Adjective)

 

Definition

Of extraordinary size, power, or difficulty.

 

The teacher was herculean in the classroom and at break.

Term

Inchoate

(Adjective)

Definition

Not fully formed or realized.

 

The students did not inchoate the lesson was for the state test. 

Term

Invidious

(Adjective ) 

 

Definition

Likely to cause resentment or animostity.

 

The man was invidious about his work.

Term

melange

(Noun)

 

Definition

A mixture of dissimilar materails.

 

The company melange the chemicals together

Term

nefarious 

(Adjective)

 

Definition

Very wicked.

 

The girl was very nefarious about how the other girl was talking about her.

Term

nihilsm

(Noun)

 

Definition

A viewpoint that denies any meaning or value to life.

 

 

The girl found a sliver dollar that might be nihilsm to her.

Term

ratify

(Verb)

 

Definition

To approve, confirm,or verfity.

 

The man ratified his note about the civil war.

Term

subsume

(Verb)

 

Definition

To encompass in a larger or more comprehensive group; to include.

 

The men subsumed the company in diffrerent cities.

Term

variegated 

(Adjective)

 

Definition

Varied as to form, type, or color.

 

The variegated garden looks terrible.

Term

vitiate

(Verb)

 

Definition

To impair or weaken.

 

The girl looked very vitiated after giving blood 

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