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Hotchkiss Vocab Test #1 - creating sentences
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English
11th Grade
10/11/2011

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Term
virtuoso
Definition
"but a handful of people are ___ "
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chapparal
Definition
"the man made the natural habitat of the ____ into his own private makeshift home"
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unassailable
Definition
"and the cars themselves, hard and ____ , so new they smelled of wax, rubber, and plastic only, were healing prescences arranged like heavy furniture."
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annealed
Definition
"the dish was ____ at a constant temperature for a given amount of time"
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hominy
Definition
"they skinned the opossum and they ate it in a stew with ____ and onions"
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nattering
Definition
"the voice on the radio was _______ on about important quotas and American jobs"
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burnished
Definition
"cars came down the canyon ______ with light"
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guttural
Definition
"it was a deep, _____ moan that made something catch in his throat"
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purposively
Definition
the man moved _____ behind the rakes and flowers which made up the prestigious lawns"
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truncated
Definition
"a shrill, ____ whistle cut through the busy noise of the factory"
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crenellated
Definition
"the ugly _____ box of a building was never a place he looked forward to going"
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shyster
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"a _____ lawyer would rip you to shreds if they found out about this!"
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