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Frankenstein
SAT prep
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12th Grade
08/17/2010
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Agitated
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upset or uneasy
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Apathy
 Definition
lack of feeling or emotion
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Articulate
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well spoken
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Barbarous
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lacking culture or refinement
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Condescension
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an attitude of superiority
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Capacious
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large, roomy
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Depraved
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sinful, morally corrupt
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Diffuse
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to spread out widely
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invulnerable
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impossible to harm, protected
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loathe
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despise, hate
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Modulate
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to pass gradually from one stae to another
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Pensive
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thoughtful
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Perversity
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deliberate unruliness
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Prognosticate
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to indicate in advance; to forcast
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Fortitude
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strength
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Renovate
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to renew
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Repulsive
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offensive, disgusting, sickening
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solace
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comfort in distress, consolation
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stifle
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to smother or suffocate
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surpass
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to do better than, be superior to
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foreboding
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an omen, prediction
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Desolation
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barren wasteland; sadness
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Dejection
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a state of depression
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Amiable
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friendly
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Entreat
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to pled, beg
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Inexorable
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inflexible
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Ardently
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Passionately
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Prudent
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Careful, Cautious
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Countenance
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Appearance, Face Expression
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Melancholy
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Sad, Gloomy
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Poignant
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Distressing to the feelings
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Irrevocably
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Conclusively, irreversibly
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Indefatigable
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Never Tired
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Caprice
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an implusive change of mind
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Odious
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Hateful
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Taint
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To spoil or infect
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Ardour
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Great warmth of feeling
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Abject
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miserable
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Abstain
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not partaking in some activity or action
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Actuate
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To put into mechanical action, animation
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Adverse
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Against, unsupportive
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Advocate
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A lawyer, who orders or reccomends
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Affability
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friendliness
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Affirmitave
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A statement of agreement
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Augury
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Prophecy, prediction of events
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Benevolent
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Kind
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Benignity
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 Kindness Gentleness
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Clemency
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Merciful leniency
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Conciliating
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Becoming agreeable, appeasing
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Conduce
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To lead to a particular and usually desirable outcome
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Console
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To alleviate grief and raisethe spirits of, provide solace
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Consolation
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Something providing comfort
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Livid
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dicolored from a bruise; pale
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Nocturnal
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Pertainig to night; active at night
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Parched
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thirsty
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Perpetrate
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To bring out
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Posterity
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Future Generations
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Presumption
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rudeness improper boldness
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Rapture
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Extreme joy
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Ravish
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To overcome with emotion
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Relinquish
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Surrender something
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Sagacity
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Shrewdness
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