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9th Grade
01/21/2008
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quell
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quiet, pacify
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inclement
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physically severe. STORMY
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slattern
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an untidy slovenly woman
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truculent
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 feeling or displaying ferocity

Cruel Savage
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perfidious
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the quality or state of being faithless or disloyal
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infamy
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an extreme and publicly known criminal or evil act
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malady
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a disease
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ferret
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to force out of hiding
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soporific
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causing or tending to cause sleep
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ostensible
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intended for display
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redundancy
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dismisal from a job
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salient
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moving by leaps or springs
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cachinnate
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to laugh loudly or immorderately
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conjecture
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to guess
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gregarious
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tending to associate with others of one's kind
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salubrious

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favorable to or promoting health or well- being
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enigmatical

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of, relating to, or resembling an enigma
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sardonic
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disdainfully or skeptically humorous
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lugubrious
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mournful
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harangue
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a speech addressed to a public assembly
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sonorous
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full or loud in sound

 
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culpable
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guilty criminal
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charlatan
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fraud faker
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inextricable
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not capable of being solved
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behest
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command
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sanguine
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consisting of or relating to blood
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doff
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to remove or take off.

to rid oneself of
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quail
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to recoil in terror or dread
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baffle
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to deaft or check by confusing and puzzleing
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azure
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the blue color of the clear sky
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