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Jane Eyre
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16
English
12th Grade
01/14/2010

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Ignominy

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(noun) deep personal humiliation and disgrace
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Peremptory

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 (adjective) putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay

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Perfidious

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 (adjective) relating to being faithless or disloyal

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Fervid

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(adjective) 1: very hot. 2 : marked by often extreme fervor

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Propitious

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 (adjective) 1: favorably disposed. 2: being a good omen

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Salubrious

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 (adjective) favorable to or promoting health or well-being

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Exigency

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(noun) a state of affairs that makes urgent demands

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Insipid

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(adjective) 1: lacking taste or savor 2: lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge.

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Lassitude

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 (noun) a condition of weariness or debility

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Charlatan

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(noun) one making usually showy pretenses to knowledge or ability

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Ascetic

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(adjective) practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline

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Asperity

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 (adjective) 1a: roughness of surface b: roughness of sound
2: roughness of manner or of temper

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Plebeian

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(noun) one of the common people

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Prurience
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 (noun) the state of feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
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Turbid

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(adjective) 1: thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment. b: heavy with smoke or mist. 2a: deficient in clarity or purity. b: characterized by or producing obscurity (as of mind or emotions).

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Pithy

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(adjective) 1: consisting of or abounding in pith. 2: having substance and point: tersely cogent.

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