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Vocabulary Workshop Level H
Units 1-6
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English
11th Grade
12/13/2011

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Adjunct
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(n.) something added to something else as helpful or useful but no essential; an assistant or helper; a valuable quality or characteristic 

(Adj.) added or connected in a subordinate capacity; attached to a faculty or staff in an auxiliary capacity

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Bellwether
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(n.) the male sheep that leads the flock to the slaughterhouse; a leader, as in a desperate or violent undertaking; an indicator of trends
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Caterwaul 
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(v.) to howl or screech like a cat; to quarrel

(n.) a hash or noisy cry; a racket

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chimerical
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(adj.) absurd; wildly fantastic; impossible
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Effete
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(adj.) lacking in wholesome vigor or energy; worn out of exhauted; sterile or unable to produce; out-of-date
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Fait Accompli
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(n.) an accomplished and presumably irreversible deed, fact or action
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Hidebound
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(adj.) narrow-minded and rigid, especially in opinions or prejudices; stubbornly and unthinkingly conservative
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Hiearchy
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(n.) any system of things or people arranged or graded one above another in order of rank, wealth, class, ect 
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liturgy
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(n.) a religious service or rite; the form of a ritual or other act of public worship
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mirage
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(n.)  something illusory, without substance or without a basis in reality; an illusion
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morass
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(n.) a patch of low, softm wet group; a swamp; a confusing situation in which onei s entrapped, as in quicksand
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noisome
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(adj.) offensice or disgusiting; foul-smelling; harmful or injurious
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oblivious
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forgetful; unaware
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poltroon
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(n.) a base coward
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proselyte
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(n.) a convert; a disciple 
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quasi
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(adj.) resembling but not actually being; seemingly but not actually completed
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ribald
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(n.) irreverently mocking; coarse, vulgar, or indecent in language
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raillery
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(n.) good-humored ridicule; teasing
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supine 
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(adh.) lying flat on one's back; ;istless or lethargic; apathetic or passive
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