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VH8
Vocabulary practice week 8
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English
9th Grade
10/12/2013

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Term

alternative

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Definition

 

choice, one of two or more things

offered for a choice,

the other or remaining choice

Term

blunder

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Definition

 

mistake or error caused by

stupidity or carelessness

Term

diminutive

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Definition

 

below average size,

small, tiny

Term

dormant

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Definition

 

inactive, as if asleep,

quiet, sluggish,

resting

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exempt

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Definition

 

freed or released from a duty,

liability, or rule to which

others are subject

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imperil

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Definition

 

endanger, jeopardize

Term

lineage

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Definition

 

descent (in direct line from a common ancestor), ancestry, family, extraction

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objective

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Definition

aim or end of an action, goal (n)

 

involving facts,

rather than personal

feelings or opinions (adj)

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procrastinate

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Definition

 

put things off, delay,

postpone, defer, dawdle

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prodigious

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Definition

 

extraordinary in size, quantity, or extent,

vast, enormous,

huge, amazing

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