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packet one 2 and beowulf
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9th Grade
10/15/2009
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laconic
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using few words
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throng
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a large group crowded together
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intrepid
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fearlous;brave
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accost
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to approach with greeting
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reticent
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to be silent
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furtive
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stealth
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felon
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criminal someone who commited a crime
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plethora
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over abundance, excess
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hapless
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unlucky, unfortunate
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irate
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angry, enraged
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pretext
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subterfuge, evasion
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fabricate
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to devise or invent
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adroit
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cleverly skill full resource full
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gesticulate
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to express by gesturing
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vigilant
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keenly watching, to detect danger
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avid
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enthusiastic; ardent; dedicated
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cajole
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to persuade by flattery or promises
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rudimentary
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pertaining to rudiments or first principles
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enhance
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to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify
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nuance
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a very slight difference or variation in color or tone.
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loathe
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detest, abominate, hate
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reprimand
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reprove rebuke
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lackluster
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lack of brilliance, dull
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caustic
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capable of burning, acid
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wrest
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twist or turn, pull, jerk
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infamous
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having an extremely bad reputation
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jostle
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to bump, push, or shove
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dupe
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person who is easily deceived
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incipient
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beginning to exist or appear
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inadvertent
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not attentive heedless
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ominous
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being exhibition on an omen
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tremulous
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affected with fremitidy
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repudiate
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to divorce or seperate
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cessation
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to delay
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bristle
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a short stiff hour
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euphemism
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a word to make things sound nice
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mundane
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a person with no skill
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incongruous
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inappropriate
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condolence
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feeling sad or sorrow
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stipulate
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to think or suppose
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scourge
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a whip or lash
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foundling
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an infant or a small child found abandon
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foes
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a person who hates another enemy
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waxed
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to increase
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tholed
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to suffer bear; endure
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rind-whorled prow
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similar to the Oseberg in stockholm
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bountifully
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abundant ample
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standard
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something considered by authority
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flocked
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a lack of wool hair
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blood-lust
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a desire for bloodshed
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blood-lust
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a desire for bloodshed
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grievance
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a wrong as grounds
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dwelt
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to lie or stay as a permanent resident
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anathema
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a person or thing detested or loathed
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wassail
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a testintiy with drinking of health
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