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Into the Wild Vocab List #3
Miss Mier
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English
11th Grade
01/14/2009

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Taciturn
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inclined to silence
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mercurial
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changeable
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nuance
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a subtle difference in expression, meaning, responce
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Inequities
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unfairness
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monomania
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an inordinate or obsessive zeal for or interest in a single thing
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clemency
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an act or deed showing mercy or leniency
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lenity
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being mind or gentle towards others
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obliquely
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indirect or evasive
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confreres
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fellow member of a fraternity or profession
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carrel
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small recess or enclosed area in a library stack, designed for individual reading or studying
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zeal
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feeling of strong eagerness
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inveigled
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to entice, lure, or enshare with flattery
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desideratum
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something considered necessary or highly desireable
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penitent
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feeling sorrow for a wrong doing
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madrigal
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short poem often about love, suitable, for being to music
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extricated
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free to release form entanglement
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recumbent
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laying down
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epiphany
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a sudden, inative perception of or insight into reality or essential meaning of something
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volition
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conscious choice for decision
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