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Heart of Darkness terms
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12th Grade
11/26/2011

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yawl
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a fore-and-aft rigged sailboat carrying a mainsail and one or more jibs with a mizzenmast far aft
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assegais
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a slender hardwood spear or light javelin usually tipped with iron and used in southern Africa
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august
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marked by majestic dignity or grandeur
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connoisseur
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one who understands the details, technique, or principles of an art and is competent to act as a critical judge
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declivity
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downward inclination
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diaphanous
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characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through
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digressions
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turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of arguement
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emissary
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one designated as the agent of another
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drollery
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something that has humorous, whimsical or odd quality
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estuary
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a water passage where the tide meets a river current
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ichthyosaurus
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in the Mesozoic era, giant marine reptiles that resembled fish and dolphins.
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immutability
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not capable of or susceptible to change
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indefatigable
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incapable of being fatiged
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insidious
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awaiting a chance to entrap
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interminable
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having or seeming to have no end
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moribund
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being in the state of dying
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primeval
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of or relating to the earliest ages
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rapacity
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the quality of being excessively grasping or covetous
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recrudescence
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a new outbreak after a period of abatement or inactivity
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sepulcher
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a place of burial
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servile
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of or befitting a slave or a menail position
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superciliousness
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coolly and patronizingly haughty
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uncongenial
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not sympathetic or compatible
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beguiled
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to lead by deception
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demoralization
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to currupt the moral of
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lugubrious
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exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful
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prevaricator
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to deviate from the truth
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sedentary
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not physically active
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sententiously
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given to or abounding in excessive moralizing
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teansgression
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infringement or violation of law, command or duty
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wantonly
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being without check or limitation
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altruistic
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unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others
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edifying
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to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge
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evanescence
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tending to vanish like vapor
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fortitude
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strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage
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fusillade
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a number of shots fired simultaneously or in rapid succession
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harlequin
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a character in comedy and pantomime with a shaved head, masked face, variegated tights and wooden sword
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imbecility
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utter foolishness
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incontinently
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without delay, immediatly
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peroration
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the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration
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pestiferous
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dangerous to society
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preeminently
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having paramount rank, dignity or importance
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rudimentary
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consisting in first principles, fundamentals
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serried
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crowded or pressed together, compact
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stanchions
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an upright bar, post or ssupport
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unfathomable
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immeasurable, impossible to comprehend
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untrammeled
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not confined or limited
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wraith
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an insubstantial form or semblance
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culminated
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to reach the highest or climatic or decisive point
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intrepidity
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characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude and endurance
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modulated
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to adjust to or keep in proper measure or proportion
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absconded
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to depart secretly and hide oneself
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circuitous
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not being forthright or direct in language or action
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factitious
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formed by or adapted to an artificial or conventional standard
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fecund
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fruitful in offspring or vegetaion, profilic
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flaunting
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to display or obtrude oneself to public notice
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jocose
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given to joking
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litany
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a prayer consisting of a series invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation
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motely
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variegated in color, composed of diverse often incongruous elements
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noxious
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physically harmful or destructive to living beings
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satiated
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to satisfy fully or to excess
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tenebrous
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shut off from light
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tepid
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moderatly warm
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unscathed
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wholly unharmed, not injured
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ascendancy
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governing or controlling influence
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callous
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feeling or showing no emotion or sympathy for others
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obsequiously
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marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
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ascetic
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austere in appearance, manner or attitude
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placid
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serenly free of interruption or disturbance
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somnambulist
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an abmormal condition of sleep in which motor acts are performed
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propitiatory
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intended to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of
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sagacious
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of keen and farsighted penetration and judgement, discerning
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languor
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weakness or weariness of body and mind
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verity
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the quality or state of being tue or real
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