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prpe 108 final
final exam
47
English
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12/06/2009

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Discernment
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Insight; ability to see things cleary
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Exonerate
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To free comletey from blame
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Indignant
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Angry; especially as a result of something unjust or unworthy
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Ephony
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Pleasant sound
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Incursion
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Hostile invasion
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Rescind
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To repeat, to take back formally; to invalidate
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Gerrymander
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to divide a state, country, or area into election districts
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Incisive
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Cutting right to the heart of the matter
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Sinuous
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Having many curves
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Condescend
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to stoop to someones else's level usually in an offensive way; to lower oneself
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Torpor
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Sluggishness; inactivity; apathy; indiferance
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Genre
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An artistic class or category
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Equivocal
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Ambiguous; intentionally confusing
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Reprehinsible
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worthy of blame or censure
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Indavertent
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Lax; without intention
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Alacrity
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Cheerful readiness; eagerness
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Desecrate
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To profane a holy place or thing
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Fecund
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Furtile
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Enigma
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Anything difficult to understand; a mystery
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Didactic
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Instructive; intended to instruct
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Futile
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Hopless; without effort
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Transitory
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Not staying for a longtime; temporary
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Voluminous
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Very large; spacious
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Trepidation
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Fear; apprehension; nervous trembling
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Solicit
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To ask for; to seek; to petition
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Repudiate
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To reject; to deny; disapprove
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Incongruous
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Not harmonious; not consistent, not appropriate, out of place
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Cacophany
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A harsh sounding mixture of words, voices, or sounds
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Esoteric
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hard to understand; understood only by a few
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Erratic
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Unprepictable; wandering
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Midigate
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To lesson the severity of something
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Pervade
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To spread throughout
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Tenative
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Uncertian; temporary
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Ephemeral
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Short lived; fleeting; not long lasting
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Tenacious
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Tough; hard to defeat
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Acrue
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Increase by growth or addition
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Depravity
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Moral corruption
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Incoherent
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Jumbled; chaotic; inpossible to understand; not logical
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Inevitable
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Unavoidable; bound to happen
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Subjugate
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To subdue and dominate; to inslave
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Cajole
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To deceptively persude someone to do something they do not want to do
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Fortuitous
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Accidental; occurring by chance
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Volatile
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Tending to violence; explosive
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Digress
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To depart from the main subject in speech or writing
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Ambivalent
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Uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
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Truculent
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Disposed to fight; pugnacious
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Allocate
Definition
Having distributed according to a plan; alloted
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