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Word Wealth Unit 7
Words you will never use
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English
11th Grade
11/13/2012

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acute
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sharp/severe/perceptive
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discernment
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clear seeing (may be mental or physical)
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astuteness
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shrewdness/mental sharpness
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wiliness
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cunning
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agile
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nimble/quick and skillful
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nimble
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quick/alert/deft of mind or body
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supple
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flexible/yielding in mind or body; quick to respond or adapt
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erratic
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irregular/wandering/having no fixed course; large rock deposited by a glacier
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err
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to wander from the path of virtue/duty/truth
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knight-errant
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wandering knight
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erroneous
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wrong/deviant/mistaken
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aberration
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mental derangement, or for a deviation or error in scientific observation
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exorbitant
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excessive/unreasonable in what one asks
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extravagant
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lavish
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inordinate
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beyond reason, without restraint
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immoderate
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not sufficiently restrained
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exultant
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joyful/jubilant
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jubilation
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wholehearted rejoicing (more vociferous than exultation)
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jubilee
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a celebration/time of rejoicing
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jocund
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cheerful/gay but not quite exultant
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implicit
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unquestioning/implied
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explicit
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clearly stated
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inane
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senseless/empty
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inert
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inactive/lifeless
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passive
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unwilling to act or lead/therefor always wanting someone else to take initiative
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indolent
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lazy/inactive
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slothful
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lazy/inactive
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dormant
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temporary condition of inactivity (sleep)
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listless
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indifferent/uninterested
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inferior
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lower in place/quality
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ersatz
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inferior substitute
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infernal
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hellish/fiendish
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diabolic
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devilish
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execrable
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bad/ugly/hellish (literally worthy of curses)
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execrations
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curses
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fugitive
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one who flees; a runaway
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refugee
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one who flees from home to escape some human/natural danger
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elusiveness
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quality that makes a fugitive hard to catch
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evasiveness
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skill in dodging something, usually by cunning (used abstractly)
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indignation
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justifiable anger
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pique
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merely ruffled
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vexation
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strong annoyance, milder than anger
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resentment
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restrained, slow-burning anger
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exasperation
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intense irritation, often violent
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wrath
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rage/fury/intense anger with a desire to punish/avenge
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animosity
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strong hostility, usually personal
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insolence
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insulting behavior/impudence
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obeisance
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a bow/curtsy; respect
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curtsy
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a dipping of the body in salutation
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genuflection
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knee-bending in worship
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salaam
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one bows very low
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kow-tow
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Chinese kind of obeisance
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repose
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rest/quiet
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repository
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place of storage for objects/ideas/materials, especially of cultural value
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repose
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to place; to rest
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retinue
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a group of attendants
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cortege
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a procession of followers
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convoy
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a protecting escort
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sanction
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approval/authorization
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warrant
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an official approval or order by a government agency for an expenditure
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dispensation
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approval by the church of some exception or variation from its laws
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indulgence
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enjoyment/satisfaction/leniency
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condonation
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approval of something questionable by seeming to overlook it
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strategy
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skill in maneuvering/planning
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tactics
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specific devices/operations
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succor
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aid/help
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tyranny
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oppressive or unjust government
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autocrat
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a tyrannical person who may dominate a schoolroom/home/business/nation
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dictator
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a tyrant/absolute ruler who ordinarily seizes power and does not transmit it to a successor in a family line
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despot
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a tyrant belonging more likely to a regular line of succession
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