English 10 Module 1-Unit 2-Vocabulary

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Scrutiny

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A close and searching look

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Posting

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Placing in a post office or mailbox for transmission

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Demagogue

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A person, especially an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of people

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Patricians

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People of noble or high rank; aristocrats

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Prerogative

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An exclusive right or privilege,etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like

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Dullard

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A stupid, insensitive person

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Roustabout

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An unskilled laborer who lives by odd jobs

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Magistrates

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Minor judicial officers, having jurisdiction to try minor criminal cases

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Cultivated

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Educated; refined

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Temper

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To soften or tone down

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Disdain

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A feeling of contempt for anything regarded as unworthy

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Puerile

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Childishly foolish; immature or trivial

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Bucolic

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Of pertaining to, or suggesting an idyllic rural life

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Equine

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Of, pertaining to, or resembling a horse

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Loath

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Intense hatred

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Scruples

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Moral or ethical considerations or standards that act as a restraining force or inhibit certain actions

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Sidearm

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A weapon, here a gun, worn at one's side or at one's belt

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Affront

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To offend by an open manifestation of disrespect or insolence

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Novice

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A person who is new to the circumstances, group, etc., in which he or she is placed; beginner

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Nascent

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Beginning to exist or develop

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Formidable

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Causing fear, apprehension, or dread

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Umbra

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Shade, shadow

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Cardinal

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Of prime importance

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Myopia

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Vision issue, near sighted

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Beget

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To cause; produce as an effect

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Tyrant

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A sovereign or other ruler who uses power oppressively or unjustly

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Coddled

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Treated tenderly; nursed or tendered indulgently

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Deliberation

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Careful consideration before decision

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Labyrinthine

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Complicated; torturous

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Wiliness

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Craftiness, slyness

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Precociousness

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Unusually advances or mature in development, especially mental development

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Audacity

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Boldness or daring, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions

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Omission

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The act of leaving something out

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Circumvent

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To go around or bypass

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Abominations

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Things that are greatly disliked

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Amiably

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Pleasantly

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Tendrils

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A threadlike,leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, as to support the plant

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Tendrils

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A threadlike,leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, as to support the plant

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Recalcitrance

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Disobedience

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Tendrils

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A threadlike,leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, as to support the plant

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Recalcitrance

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Disobedience

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Infamy

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Extremely bad reputation

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Timbre

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The characteristic quality of sound produced by a particular instrument or voice; tone color