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Vocab week 7
Mrs. Shoumacher 6E team station middle school - Week 7
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6th Grade
12/20/2009

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Implacable
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Inexorable

not to be persuaded, moved, or affected by prayers or entreaties

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Paroxysm
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a fit, attack, or sudden recurrence of symptoms

seizure or spasm of muscles

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reprehensible

 

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deserving blame

shameful; very bad

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jurisdiction
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Lawful power or right to exercise official authority

area of authority

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skirmish
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small fight or brief encounter

fight, battle, brawl

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cause celebre

 

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a famous law case trail,or controversy

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harass
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to irritate or torment persistently 

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monolithic
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massive, solid, and uniform

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arbitrary
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based on whim no set pattern

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indigent
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so poor; very needy

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fray
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a scuffle; brawl; fight

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one swallow does not make a summer
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a good or positive event does not mean that everything is right

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stymie

 

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to hinder, get in the way

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effigy
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a crude figure representing and enemy or hated group

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flout
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show contempt for; scoff at

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cognizant
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fully informed; conscious

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turbulent
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violently agitated or disturbed

bitter

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a bitter pill to swallow
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an unpleasant fact that needs to be accepted; a humiliating defeat

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terminate
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to bring to an end or halt
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forthwith
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at once; imidiatley

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exacerbate
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to increase the severity

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revert
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to return to a former condition practice subject or belief

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oust
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to eject from a position or place force out

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an ax to grind
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to have something to complain about; having a selfish motive in the background

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