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Heart Of Darkness
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Language - English
12th Grade
04/19/2007

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fecund
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a. intellectually productive or inventive to a marked degree; a fecund imagination
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deplorable
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a. lamentable ; a deplorable death
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sagacious
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a. obsolete
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inexorable
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a. not to be persuaded
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dubious
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a. giving rise to uncertainty: as a : of doubtful promise or outcome ;a dubious plan
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disparagingly
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a. to lower in rank or reputation : degrade
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rapacious
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a. ravenous ;a rapacious appetite excessively; grasping or covetous
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insidious
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treacherous
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languildy
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a. drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak
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immutablity
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a. not capable of or susceptible to change
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lugubrious
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exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful
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candor
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b. freedom from prejudice or malice
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evanescence
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a. Said of smoke or mist, etc: to disappear gradually;
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circuitous
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a. having a circular or winding course
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abject
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a. sunk to or existing in a low state or condition
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