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Moby Dick
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50
English
12th Grade
11/27/2008

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ambergris
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morbid sperm whale secretion used to make perfume
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apotheosis
Definition
glorifid personification of a person or idea, deification
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argosy
Definition
merchant vessel or fleet carrying rich cargo
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Beatitude
Definition
any of Jesus' statements on blessedness at the Sermon on the Mount
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boudoir
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woman's bedroom or private sitting room
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caterwaul
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to scream, cry out
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cogent
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convincing, forcible
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craven
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cowardly, coward
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credulous
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too willing to believ, gullible
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deletorious
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injurious
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discursive
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rambling, moving from subject to subject without order
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dissemble
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to give a false impression about, pretend to disregard or ignore
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dyspepsia
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impaired power of digestion
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elocution
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the study and practice of effective communication
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equivocation
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ambiguous expressions, evasive language
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fastidious
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hard to please, overnice
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fatuous
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complacently, silly, inane
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flummery
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agreable nonsens, porridge
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grog
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rum and water
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hoosegow
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jail
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ignominy
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public disgrace
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imbroglio
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an intricate, complex, or confusing state of affairs
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incipient
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beginning to exist or appear
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insidious
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operating stealthily with evil effect, dceitful, treacherous
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invective
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vehement denunciation or vituperation, censorious, abusive
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jocular
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playful, joking
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lascivious
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inciting to lust, wanton, lewd
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lassitude
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weariness, languor
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litany
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ceremonial prayer with responses
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lugubrious
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mournful, doleful, dejected
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meretricious
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deceitfully alluring, tawdry
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nonplus
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to perplex, confound
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opine
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to give an opinion, think
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pedantic
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marrow-minded, overly meticulous
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preclude
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to impede, prevent
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prosaic
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unromanitc, commonplace
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quaff
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to drink deeply
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ragamuffin
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ragged person
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rote
Definition
mechanical routine in learning, repetition without attention to meaning, medieval string instrument
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sanguine
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confident, optimistic, hopeful
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sinuous
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full of curves, winding, devious
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proffer
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tender, as an offer, an offer
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sully
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to stain, defile
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tete-a-tete
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private talk
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torpor
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sluggishness in bolily functioning, stupor, stupidity, inactivity, lethargy
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tryst
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appointed meeting especially between lovers
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unctuous
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oily, suave
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vapid
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lacking animation or flavor
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vicissitudes
Definition
change of conditions, good or bad fortune
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wonk
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obsessive student, grind, an unattractive person
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