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wk 2 vocab
wk 2 vocab Ms. Young
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Language - English
8th Grade
09/02/2008

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be INQUISITIVE
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(adj.) eager for knowledge; curious; prying
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PERCEIVE
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(v.) understand; grasp; become aware of; observe
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PONDER
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consider carefully; reflect on; think over
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QUERY
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(v.) ask questions of; investigate; challenge
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be RATIONAL
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(adj.) sensible; reasonable; logical; clearheaded
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REFLECT
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(adj.) think seriously and carefully; consider; reveal; uncover
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SPECULATE
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(v.) wonder about a subject; wager; gamble
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COLLABORATE
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(v.) work together; team up; cooperate; assist
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COPE
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(v.) try to manage; deal with something successfully; handle
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CRAM
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(v.) study hard before a test; stuff; fill to overflowing
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GRAPPLE
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(v.) attempt to deal with; face; come to grips with
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PERSEVERE
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(v.) keep at something in spite of difficulties; refuse to quit
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be PERSISTENT
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(adj.) stubbornly determined; constant; refuse to quit
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YEARN
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(v.) want; crave; have a strong desire for; pine for
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CLICHE
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(n.) overused expression; stereotype
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GARBLED
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(v.) confused; distorted in such a way as to make unintelligible
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HUMDRUM
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(adj.) routine; mundane; tedious; unvarying
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ILLEGIBLE
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(adj.) impossible or very hard to read
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ILLITERATE
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(adj.) badly written; unable to read or write; uninstructed
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INCOHERENT
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(adj.) not clear or understandable in speech or thought
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INCOMPREHENSIBLE
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(adj.) impossible to understand; baffling; abstruse
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INDEFINITE
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(adj.) vague; not certain; not clear in meaning
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IRRELEVANT
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(adj.) not applicable or pertinent; unconnected
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MONOTONOUS
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(adj.) boring; uninteresting; uttered in an unchanging tone
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RAMBLING
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(v.) talking or writing without a clear purpose or point; wandering
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