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Lesson 2
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English
10th Grade
09/25/2008

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Term
aesthetic
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[adj.] having to do with artisitic beauty; artistic
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prodigal
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[adj.] wastefully extravagent
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augment
Definition
[v.] to make bigger; to add to; to increase
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guile
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[n.] cunning; duplicity; artfulness
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squander
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[v.] to waste
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laud
Definition
[v.] to praise; to applaud; to extol; to celebrate
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infamous
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[adj.] shamefully wicked; having an extremely bad reputation; disgraceful
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depravity
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[n.] extreme wickedness or corruption
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banal
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[adj.] unoriginal; ordinary
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extol
Definition
[v.] to praise highly; to laud
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auc/aug/aux [auction, auxiliary, augment, august]
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to increase
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pug [pugilism, pug, pugnacious]
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to fight
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cis [scissors, precise, exorcise; excise; incision; incisive; concise]
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to cut
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