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Honors English 10 - Vocab List 2
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General Vocab
10th Grade
09/23/2010

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Accost
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(Verb) To speak boldly
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Animadversion
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(Verb) To comment with critisisim
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Avid
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(Adj) Enthusiastic ; Eager
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Brackish
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(Adj) Salty taste ; Containing Salt
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Celerity
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(Noun) Speed/Swiftness ; Rapidity of motion
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Devious
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(Verb) Sneaky ; Taking the direct route
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Gambit
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(Noun) Opening move ; Strategy
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Halcyon
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(Adj) Peaceful
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Histrionic
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(Adj) Dramatic ; Drama ; Theatre
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Incendiary
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(Adj) Causing or capable of causing fire
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Malestrom
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(Noun) Any irrestable or dangerous force
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Myopic
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(Adj) Near Sighted
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Overt
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(Adj) Not Secret ; Open to view
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Pejorative
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(Adj) Tending to make worse
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Propriety
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(Noun) The quality or state of being in perfect order ; Appropriateness
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Sacrilege
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(Noun) Violation of something consecrated to God
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Summarily
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(Adverb)Quickly, Briefly
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Suppliant
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(Adj) Asking Humbly or Samariently
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Talisman
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(Noun) An object thought to act as a charm
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Undulate
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(Verb) TO Have a wavelike appearance or motion
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