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Vocab D-13
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Grammar
9th Grade
04/25/2010

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Term
Abrogate
Definition
The Innocence Project helped get the man's sentence ABROGATED due to the DNA evidence in his favor.
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Analgesic
Definition
I took an ANALGESIC to relieve the extreme pain in my back.
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Conflagration
Definition
What started out as a simple candle flame became a CONFLAGRATION when it caught the drapes and burnt the house down.
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Cumulative
Definition
The CUMULATIVE effect of consuming fatty foods led to his obesity.
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Discretionary
Definition
Due to the attacks in Iraq, the President of The United States used his DISCRETIONARY power to send troops to the war zone.
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Flummox
Definition
Because I was proficient in the science field, I became FLUMMOXED when he asked me how to solve a quadratic equation.
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Fractious
Definition
The FRACTIOUS child screamed and squirmed when his mom tried to put him to bed.
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Histrionics
Definition
He showed HISTRIONICS by screaming and crying like he was in pain when all I did was accidentally bump into him.
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Implicate
Definition
No matted how small of a part you play in a crime, you will be IMPLICATED in it, charged, and sentenced the same way the leader is.
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Moribund
Definition
He remained MORIBUND in the hospital because there was no cure for the new disease.
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Replete
Definition

When the fishermen dropped their net into the water, they were REPLETE to find over 100 fish had been trapped in it.

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Turpitude
Definition
In many cultures, cheating is considered to be TURPITUDE and is punishable by death.
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Unpalatable
Definition

The very uptight senior citizens found the very sexually graphic movie UNPALATABLE.

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Veritable
Definition
When the new software was released, many hacked or non VERITABLE copies of the software were being passed around.
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Viscera
Definition
In biology, we saw a diagram of our VISCERA to help us understand the inside of the human body.
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