Exam Review For English Vocab

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Curtail

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shorten reduce lessen

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travesty

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ridiculous imatation

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scruple

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doubt or uneasiness as to what is right or proper

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havoc

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great destructuion of confusion

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mentor

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wise trusted teacher or conselor

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haggard

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looking worn and tired

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utopian

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characteristic of an ideal society; visionary

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mercurial

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changeable; unpredictaable ;lively

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diffidnet

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lakcing self-confidence timid unassertive

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hypocrisy

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pretending to be what one is not, espiecally to have feelings beliefs or virtues that oen does not have

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abridge

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to reduce the length of a writtne text condense

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truncate

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to shorten by or as if by cutting off

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parody

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a literary or artistic work that imitates the charahcteristic style of an author or a work for comic effort of ridiclue

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compunction

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a strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt

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calamity

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an event that brings terrible loss lasting distress or severe affliction a disaster

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pedagogue

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a schoolteahcer an educator one who instructs in a pedantic or dogamtic manner

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gaunt

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thin and bony angular emaciated and haggard drawn

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idealistic

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relating to or having the nature of an idealist or idealism

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volatile

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tending to violence explosive

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self-effacing

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not drawing attention to onesefl modest

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duplicities

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deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech an instance of deliberate deceptevness double dealing twofold

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sanctimony

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feigned piety or righteousness; hypocriticla devoutness or high mindedness