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Vocab for Final Exam
All four chapters
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English
9th Grade
12/17/2012

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Bereft
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Deprived of, made unhappy through a loss.
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Insidious
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Intended to decieve or entrap; sly, treacherous.
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Stolid
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Not easily moved mentally or emotionally; dull, unresponsive.
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Averse
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Having a deep seated distaste; opposed, unwilling.
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Extol
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To praise extravagantly.
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Impervious
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Not affected or hurt by; admitting of no passage or entrance.
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Tepid
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Lukewarm; unenthusiastic, marked by an absence of interest.
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Artifice
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A skillful or ingenious device, a clever trick; a clever skill, trickery.
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Coerce
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To compel, force.
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Negligible
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So unimportant that it can be disregarded.
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Punitive
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Inflicting or aiming at punishment.
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Redress
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To set right, remedy, relief from wrong or injury.
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Ascertain
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To find out.
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Cogent
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Forceful, convincing; relevant, to the point.
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Omniscient
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Knowing everything; having unlimited awareness or understanding.
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Panacea
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A remedy for all ills; cure-all; an answer to all problems.
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Scrupulous
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Exact, careful, attending thoroughly to details; having high moral standards, principled.
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Skulk
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To move bout stealthily; to lie in hiding.
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Supercilious
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Proud an contemptuous; showing scorn because of a feeling of superiority.
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Uncanny
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Strange, mysterious, weird, beyond explanation.
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Venial
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Easily excused, pardonable.
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Altruistic
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Unselfish, concerned with the welfare of others.
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Clemency
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Mercy, humanness; mildness, moderateness
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Dearth
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A lack, scarcity, inadequate supple; a famine.
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Diffident
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Shy, lacking self-confidence; modest, reserved.
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Discrepancy
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A difference; a lack of agreement.
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Truculent
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Fierce and cruel; aggressive; deadly, destructive; scathingly harsh.
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Virulent
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Extremely poisonous; full of malice; spiteful.
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Accede
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To yield to; to assume an office or dignity.
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Extirpate
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To tear up by the roots; to destroy totally.
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Officious
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Meddling; excessively forward in offering services or assuming authority.
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Rampant
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Growing without check, running wild.
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Stately
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Dignified, majestic.
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Venal
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Open to or marked by bribery or corruption.
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