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Fab Vocab #2
Ms. Parrish's FAAAABBB VOCAAAB!
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English
12th Grade
09/29/2009
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Inveigle
 Definition
to persude by ingenuity or flattery
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Modicum
 Definition
Small quanity or portion
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Aridity
 Definition
Dryness; Bareness
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Mollify
 Definition
Soften, ally someone's rage
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Cacophony
 Definition
Unpleasent, harsh sound
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Capacious
 Definition
Able to contain much
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Disparaging
 Definition
Depreciating; Lessening in rank
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Solicitous
 Definition
Showing care, attention, concern, full of anxious desire
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disheveled
 Definition
Disarranged, untidy, tousled, rumpled
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Sesquipedalian
 Definition
characterized by the use of long words
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disseminate
 Definition
Scatter, broadcast, spread
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Somnambulist
 Definition
One who walks and preforms other actions during sleep
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Soporific
 Definition
Causing sleepiness...ZZzzzz.
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Doleful
 Definition
Sad, sorrowful, mourning
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Specious
 Definition
Apparently just or correct, but not actually so.
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Flout
 Definition
Mock, insult, scoff
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Overweening
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Overbearing, excessive
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Dulcet
 Definition
Melodious, soft, soothing
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Spurious
 Definition
Not genuine, counterfeit
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Ebullient
 Definition
Boiling up, bubbling, effervesent
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