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Witch of Blackbird Pond vocab
Vocabulary words for Mrs. Haddock
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Literature
7th Grade
09/09/2012
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surreptitiously
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secretly, stealthily
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inveigle
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to persuade through trickery
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cowed
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to have been frightened by threats or showed force
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concoct
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to put together,to devise
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instigation
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act of urging, or inciting
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intercede
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to act as a mediator or to plead on another's behalf
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nonplussed
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to be perplexed
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vengeance
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punishment made to pay back an earlier injury
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tantalizingly
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mockingly and teasingly
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sundry
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various,miscellaneous
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preternatural
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beyond what is ordinary
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auspiciously
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marked by success
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perforce
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by force of circumstance
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adroit
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dexterious
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composure
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calmness
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decorum
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Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
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enthrall
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to hold spellbound
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incorherent
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unable to think or express one's thoughts in a clear orderly maner
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ingenious
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displaying a cunning or genious mind
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obstreperous
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noisily, defiant, or in the way
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tryst
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an agreement between lovers to meet at a secret location
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uproariously
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loud and full causing or accompanied by an uproar
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disheartening
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to shake or destroy one's courage
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fulsome
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offensively obsessive or insincere
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hankering
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to have a longing for something
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punctilious
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attendive to finer points or details
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timorous
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full of apprehensiveness
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