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God Of Small Things Vocab
Chapters 1 & 2
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English
10th Grade
10/16/2008
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Dissolute
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Relaxed in morals, Doing bad things
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Vacuous
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Empty of meaning
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Amorphous
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Having no definite form, Shapeless
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Permeate
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To seep into
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Inanimate
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Not living
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Fictitious
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Not Real
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Purloin
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To steal
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Waywardness
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Obstinacy, Contrariness
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Temerity
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Boldness
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Elation
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Great joy
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Noxious
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Poisonous, Harmful
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Ruse
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Cover-up, Trick, Ploy
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Transgressor
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Criminal
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Desolate
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Lonely, Barren, Bleak
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Discrepancy
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A lack of compatability
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Fathom
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To understand something profound
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Carnal
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Having to do with sex
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Aggravate
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To make worse
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Diffident
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Timid, Shy
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Incipient
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Beginning to Happen
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Waif
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A poor, pathetic person with no friends,
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Ignominy
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Disgrace, Dishonor
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Pernicious
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Evil, Wicked, Destructive
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Dapper
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Smartly dressed, Spiffy
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Precocious
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Ahead of one's years
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Desultory
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Aimless
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Bourgeois
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Upper class
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Avatar
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Incarnation
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Opulent
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Luxurious, Over lavish
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Insidious
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Slowly and subtly harmful
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Euphoria
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A state of elation
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Foment
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To stir up or insight
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Ingratiating
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Jealous, Envious
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Scourge
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A person who punishes
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Salvage
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Rescue
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Inadvertent
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Accidental
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Pious
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Devout
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