English 9-5 Vocab

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Accentuate

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To give emphasis or prominence to.

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Alliteration

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The repetition of beginning consonant sounds

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Analogy

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A comparison of two things that are not alike to show similarity

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Antibody

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Immune defense

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Aspire

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To aim, or seek ambitiously

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Bamboozle

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To deceive or trick

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Bizarre

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Grotesque, strange

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Boisterous

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Rough and noisy

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Boycott

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To abstain from buying or using

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Camouflage

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Obscure things to deceive an enemy; concealment

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Inference

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A conclusion, drawn by reasoning from evidence

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Intelligence

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Capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meaning etc

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Not on test

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Chronology

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The sequential order in which past events occur

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Commemorate

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To honor the memory of

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Cower

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To crouch in fear or shame

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Decorum

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Dignified behavior, speech, dress etc

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Deduction

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A process of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn from information given

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Deign

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To condescend to give or grant

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Despondent

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Feelings or showing profound hopelessness

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Dialogue

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The conversation between characters in a novel, drama, etc

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Divulge

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To disclose or reveal something private or secret

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Eclectic

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Made up of what is selected from different sources

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Ellipse

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A plane curve

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Embargo

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A restraint or hindrance; prohibition

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Enthusiastic

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Energetic; ardent

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Exponents

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A person or thing that expounds explains, or interprets

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Exult

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To show or feel a lively or triumphant joy

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Fallacy

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A deceptive, misleading, or false notion or belief

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Flourish

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To be successful; prosper

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Formidable

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Causing fear, apprehension, or dread

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Gargoyle

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A grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal

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Guerrilla

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Pertaining to fighters or their technique of warfare

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Guru

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An intellectual or spiritual guide or leader

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Heritage

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Something that comes or belongs to one by reason of birth; inherited

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Hieroglyphic

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Form of Egyptian writing; a figure or symbol with a hidden meaning

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Hologram

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A negative image that, when placed in a beam of coherent light, forms a true three-dimensional image

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Hypocrisy

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A pretense of having some desirable or publicly approved attitude

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Immune

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Protection from a disease

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Impertinent

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Insolently rude

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Introspection

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The act of looking within oneself

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Jaunty

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Easy and sprightly in manner or bearing

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Jovial

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Characterized by a hearty, joyous humor

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Kilometer

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A unite of length, equal to 1000 meters

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Labyrinth

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An intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit

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Laconic

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Expressing much in a few words; concise

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Lichen

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Composed of a fungus in symbiotic Union with an algae

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Light year

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A very great distance, expecially in development or progress

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Maneuver

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To manipulate or manage with skill

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Marsupial

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Any nonplacental mammal having a marsupium containing the mammary glands and severing as a receptacle for the young

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Metaphor

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A comparison of dissimilar things, without using "like" or "as"

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Mosaic

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A picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc

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Mutation

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Alteration, as in form or nature

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Nebula

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a cloud of interstellar gas and dust

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Nocturnal

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Done, occurring, or coming at night

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Nuisance

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an obnoxious or annoying person, thing, condition, practice

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Omnivore

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Someone or something that eats both animal and plant foods

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Outrageous

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Of the nature of or involving gross injury or wrong. Grossly offensive to the sense of right or decency. Violence in action or temper.

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Ozone

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A form of oxygen, 03. With a peculiar odor suggesting that of weak chlorine, when an electric spark or ultraviolet light is passed through air or oxygen. Is found in the atmosphere.

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Parasite

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An organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, the host, from the body of which it obtains nutrients.

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Participle

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An adjective for compliment to certain a auxiliaries that is regularly derived from the verb.

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Phloem

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The part of vascular bundle consisting of sieve tubes, companion cell, parenchyma, and fibers and forming the food- conducting tissue of a plant.

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Polygon

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A figure, expecially a closed plane figure, having three or more, usually straight, sides.

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Protagonist

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The leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.

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Pulverize

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To reduced to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding, demolish or crushed.

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Quandary

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A state of perplexity or uncertainty, especially as to what to do; dilemma.

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Quarantine

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A strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.

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Quota

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The share or proportional part of a total that is required from, or is due or belongs to, a particular District, State, person, group, etc.

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Rain Forest

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A tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.