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Lesson 15 Vocabulary
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English
12th Grade
09/03/2009

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capricious
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whimsical, fanciful, impulsive
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castigate
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to punish, chastise, criticize severely
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cataclysm
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a violent upheaval, an earthquake, a flood
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cavil
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to quibble, to raise trivial objections
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chary
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careful, cautious, wary
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chicanery
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deception or trickery
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chimerical
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wildly fanciful, absurd
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circumlocution
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wordy language; an indirect, roundabout expression
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clout
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influence, a forceful blow
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cogitate
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to ponder over, to meditate, to think
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comport
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to behave
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compunction
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remorse, uneasy feeling after having done something
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concomitant
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accompanying, attending, going along with
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conflagration
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a large, disastrous fire
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contentious
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argumentative over a point, quarrelsome
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cortege
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a procession, a group of attendants
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coterie
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an intimate group of people with a common interest
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covet
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to wish for with envy
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debacle
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a disaster or violent breakdown
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decimate
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to kill or destroy a large part of
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