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Final Vocabulary Study List
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45
English
11th Grade
06/04/2012

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Term
Conflagration
Definition

noun

a destructive fire, usually an extensive one.
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fulgent

Definition

adjective

shining brightly; dazzling; resplendent
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subterfuge
Definition

noun

an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.

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genial
Definition
warmly and pleasantly cheerful; cordial:
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gentry
Definition
noun
wellborn and well-bred people.
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progeny
Definition

noun

a descendant or offspring, as a child, plant, or animal.

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cognizance
Definition

noun

awareness, realization, or knowledge; notice; perception:
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epigram

Definition

noun

awareness, realization, or knowledge; notice; perception:
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egregious
Definition

adjective

extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant:
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gregarious
Definition

adjective

fond of the company of others; sociable.
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exhume
Definition

verb

to dig (something buried, especially a dead body) out of the earth; disinter.

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imbibe
Definition

verb

to consume (liquids) by drinking; drink:
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immutable
Definition

adjective

not mutable; unchangeable; changeless.
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innocuous
Definition

 

adjective
not harmful or injurious; harmless:
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infer
Definition

verb

to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence:

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itinerant
Definition
traveling from place to place, especially on a circuit, as a minister, judge, or sales representative; itinerating; journeying.
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reiterate
Definition

verb

to say or do again or repeatedly; repeat, often excessively.

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jocund
Definition

adjective

cheerful; merry; gay; blithe; glad:

 

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abjudicate
Definition

verb

 To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge

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adjunct
Definition
noun
something added to another thing but not essential to it.
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plaudit
Definition

noun

an enthusiastic expression of approval:

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ablution
Definition

noun

a cleansing with water or other liquid, especially as a religious ritual.

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dialect
Definition

noun

 a variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, and by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from others geographically or socially.

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lecturn
Definition

noun

 A choir desk, or reading desk, in some churches, from which the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read; hence, a reading desk.

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levity
Definition

noun

lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness.

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colloquial
Definition

adjective

 characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal.

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ecology
Definition

noun

the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms.

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elocution
Definition

noun

a person's manner of speaking or reading aloud in public:

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obloquy
Definition

noun

censure, blame, or abusive language aimed at a person or thing, especially by numerous persons or by the general public.

Term
elucidate
Definition

verb

to make lucid or clear; throw light upon; explain:

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lucid
Definition

adjective

easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible:
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magistrate
Definition

noun

a civil officer charged with the administration of the law.

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magnanimous
Definition

adjective

generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness:

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malice
Definition

noun

desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness:

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malinger
Definition

verb (used without object)

to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.

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manifest
Definition

adjective

readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent;plain:

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countermand
Definition

verb (used with object)

to revoke or cancel (a command order, etc.)

 

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mandate
Definition

noun

a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative:

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reprimand
Definition

noung

severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.

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microcosm
Definition

noun

a little world; a world in miniature

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misogynist
Definition

noun

a person who hates, dislikes, mistrusts, or mistreats women.
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mollify
Definition

verb (used with object)

to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.

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morbid
Definition

adjective

suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.:
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immutable
Definition

adjective

not mutable; unchangeable; changeless.

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