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Final Vocab
English 10 PFA
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10th Grade
05/19/2014
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Thicket
 Definition
A dense cluster of bushes or trees
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Sycophant
 Definition
A person who tries to please another for personal gain
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Audacity
 Definition
Willingness to take risks
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Quiescent
 Definition
A state of inactivity
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Recondite
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Complicated
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Ignominy
 Definition
Public shame
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Perspicacity
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Shrewdness
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Saturate
 Definition
Soaked in liquid
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Tirade
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A long angry speech
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Brevity
 Definition
Concise use of words
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Urbane
 Definition
Refined in manor
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Vehement
 Definition
Showing strong feeling
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Capricious
 Definition
To change ones mind without reason
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Aberration
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Departure from what is normal
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Abominable
 Definition
Causing moral revulsion
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Overwrought
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In a state of nervous excitement
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Variant
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A version of something that differs from the original in some respect
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Impious
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Not showing respect
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Fallacious
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Based on a mistaken belief
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Clemency
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Mercy
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Bumptious
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Proud to an irritating degree
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Ascetic
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Self denying
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Adverse
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Preventing success
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Bombastic
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Lofty in style
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Convivial
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In good company
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Tome
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A big book
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Querulous
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Habitually
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Reprobate
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A person without moral scruples
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Impracticable
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Impossible of happening
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Disintegrate
 Definition
To break into small parts
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