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7th Grade
01/30/2010

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Term
Skullduggery
Definition
trickery, underhandedness
Young Indiana Jones was was up to some skullduggery.
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Ancillary
Definition
helping, providing assistance, subordinate
The celery was ancillary to Peter's sandwich.
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Sedentary
Definition
characterized by requiring much sitting accustomed to little exercise
Sedentary Larry often would sit and stare.
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Cursory
Definition
rapid and superficial, performed with haste and scant attention to detail
A cursory glance by the prince who told him that Cinderella's foot had been cursed.
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Predatory
Definition
victimizing or destroying others for one's own gain, pillaging
A predatory bread story.
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Symmetry
Definition
exact correspondence of form on opposite sides of a dividing line
Symmetry in the cemetery.
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Tawdry
Definition
gaudy or cheap in appearance or nature
Tawdry Audrey.
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Ambulatory
Definition
of or for walking, capable of walking
An ambulatory ambulance.
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Idolatry
Definition
blind or excessive devotion to something
The twins love their doll tree bordered on idolatry.
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Pecuniary
Definition
consisting of or relating to money
A pecuniary peculiar dairy.
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