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Hard Times Vocab
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English
12th Grade
12/21/2010

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Iradiated
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(v.)to cast rays of light upon;

to enlighten

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Bolus
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(n.) a rounded mass; a hard pill
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Fistic
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(adj.) of or relating to boxing or

fighting with the fists

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Corpulent
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(adj.) having a large bulky body
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Metallurgical
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(adj.) the science of a new technology

of metals

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Eminently
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(adj.) to a high degree
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Torpid
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(adj.) having lost motion or the power

of execution or feeling

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Capacious
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(adj.) containing or capable of

containing a great deal

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Patrician
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(n.) a person of high birth
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Whelp
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(n.)a despised one

(v.) to give birth to

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Appellation
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(n.) an idntifying name or title
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Caustic
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(adj.) capable of destoying or eating away by chemical action
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Indolent
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(adj.) causing little or no pain;

slow to develop or heal

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Umbrageous
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(dj.) affording shade; spotted with shadows
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Caprice
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n. a sudden, impulsive and seemingly unmotivated notion or action
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Obduracy
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(n.) the quality or state of being stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
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Indefatigable
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(adj.) incapable of being fatigued
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Conveyance
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(n.) the action of conveying (to bear from one place to another)
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