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Vocab Chapters 5 & 6
Word Book 8
30
Language - English
11th Grade
10/04/2007

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Capacious
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Adj; roomy, spacious
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Diaphanous
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Adj; translucent, transparent
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Prosaic
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Adj; Like prose, commonplace, matter-of-fact, ordinary, dull
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Querulous
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Adj; complaining, irratable, peevish
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Restive
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Adj; restless, unrily, uneasy, refractory
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Sycophancy
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N; servility, toadying, base flattery,
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Virulent
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Adj; poisonous, venomous
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Confiture
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N; a jam, preserve, confection
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Demur
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V; to object, take exception
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Equanimity
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N; composure, calmness, sangfroid
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Mendacious
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Adj; lying, untruthful, dishonest
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Penurious
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Adj; needy, poor; stingy, miserly
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Seditious
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Adj; rebellious, insubordinant, mutinous
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Efface
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V; to wipe out, obliterate, erase
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Inimical
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Adj; hostile, antagonistic, harmful, adverse
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Nascent
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Adj; beginning to exist, incipient
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Phlegmatic
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Adj: unemotional, impassive, undemonstrative
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Precipitous
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Adj: extremely steep
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Badinage
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N; banter, light repartee
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Colloquy
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N; a conference, formal conversation
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Hegemony
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N; dominance, predominance, leadership
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Ostensible
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Adj; pretended, seeming, apparent
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Peripatetic
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Adj; Walking about, itinerant
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Profligate
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Adj; extravagant, wasteful, dissolute, immoral, abandon
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Putative
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Adj; supposed, reputed
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Raillery
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N; banter, good-natured teasing
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Dissemble
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V; to disguise, pretend, feign
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Expatiate
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V; to elaborate, dilate, discourse
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Macerate
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V; to soften, to emaciate
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Maelstrom
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N; whirlpool
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