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9th Grade
05/19/2009

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frenzy
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(n.) violent agitation; madness; delirium
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torment
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(v.) to afflict with intense bodily or mental suffering or pain
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thrash
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(v.) to beat with a whip
(v.) to move about with flailing, violent motions
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latter
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(adj.) the second of two mentioned person or things
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raucous
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(adj.) rough in sound; hoarse; harsh
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sabotage
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(n.) an act of malicious damage; to injure or attack
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lament
lamentation
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(v.) to feel or express sorrow for
(n.) sorrow; expressing grief
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void
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(adj.) not occupied by matter; empty; destitute; useless
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emaciated
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(adj.) very thin; wasted away
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elapsed
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(v.) to slip away (the time)
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feeble
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(adj.) lacking muscular power; weak; frail; infirm
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evacuation
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(n.) the act of evacuating or making empty
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relentless
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(adj.) indifferent to the pain of others; pitiless; unremitting; continuous
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deprive
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(v.) to take something away from; to dispossess; remove and/or withhold something
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bereave
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(v.) to deprive as of hope or happiness; to leave desolate or saddened through loss
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apathy
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(n.) lack of feeling, emotion, or sensation; insensibility; indifference; lack of interest
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livid
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(adj.) lacking color; ashen, ashy, bloodless, cadaverous
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vitality
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(n.) the state of being vital; animation; life
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tether
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(n.) something used to confine
(v.) to fasten or confine
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contagion
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(n.) 1.the communication of desease by contact, direct or indirect, or figuratively, of mental states by suggestion or association
2.plague
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