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Vocab Quiz November/Dec
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14
Language - English
8th Grade
11/27/2012

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Term
pre-lapsarian
Definition
before "the fall"
Term
transcend
Definition
verb
something that becomes out of range
Term
convoluted
Definition
adj.
something really hard to follow
Term
allure
Definition
noun
the power of being odly transfixing
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adversity
Definition
noun
misfortunes
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congenial
Definition
adj.
pleasant because of personal qualities
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dissuade
Definition
verb
trying to talk someone out of doing something
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amalgam
Definition
noun
a mixture of things
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anomaly
Definition
noun
something that is exceeding from what is expected
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cursory
Definition
adj.
done with haste, and not thorough
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posit
Definition
verb
to assume a fact about something or someone
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personify
Definition
verb
to give human characteristics to a inanimate object
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anthropomorphic
Definition
adj
to give animal characteristics to a a human
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symbolic gestures
Definition
ex.
Mcandless burning his money was symbolic because he thought that money wasn't necessary to live a life.
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