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Unit 8 Vocabulary
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Grammar
10th Grade
10/27/2009

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Animosity
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Along Dislike;Bitter hostility
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Apathy
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A lack of feeling,emotion, or interest
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Apprehensive
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Fearful or anxious, especially about the future
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Commend
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To praise, express approval; to present as worthy of attention; to commit the care of
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Compatiable
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Able to get along or work well with others, capable of use with some other model or system
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Condolence
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An expression of sympathy
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Consecrate
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To make sacred,hallow, to set for a special purpose
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Decrepit
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Old and feeble; worn-out, ruined
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Deride
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To redicule, laugh at with contempt
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Ingenuous
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Innocent, simple; frank, sincere
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Multifarious
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Having great variety; numerous and diverse
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Obsolete
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Out of date, no longer in use
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Omnivorous
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Eating every kind of food; eagerly taking in everything, having a wide variety of tastes
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Parsimonious
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Stingy, miserly, meager, poor, small; cheap
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Quandary
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A state of perpexity or doubt, confusion
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Recalcitrant
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Stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority
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Reprisal
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An injury done in return for an injury, revenge
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Revel
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to take great pleasure in, a wild celebreation
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Stultify
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To make ineffective or useless, cripple, to have a dulling effect on
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Suave
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Smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses
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