Honors English 10 Vocab Final

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Equanimity

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Evenness of temper under stress, composure, calmness

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Iniquity

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Injustice, wickedness, evil..........vocab tests

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Inordinate

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Beyond resonable limits in amount or degree, excessive

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Mercurial

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Lively and unpredictable

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Pecuniary

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Of or relating to money

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Tenable

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Somthign with reasonable argument to support, capable of being occupied

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Avarice

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A greed for wealth

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Conciliate

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To bring disputes to an end, to make peace, to be charming to gain somthing

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Corollary

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consequence for somthing

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Duress

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Use of force or threats, pressure-black mail

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Espouse

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adopt or to be married, to take up

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Extenuate

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to diminish the seriousness of, to make a mistake seem less than it is

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Fissure

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A crack, long narrow opening, a division in a group

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Impeccable

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flawless, perfect in every way, basically...Jordin

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Quell

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to put down, supress, bring somthing to an end

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Rancor

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resentment, bitter, long lasting ill will

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Burgeoning

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Growing or expanding quickly

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Caricature

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A comic exageration, cartoon

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Commiserate

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To sympathize with someone

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Evanescent

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A cool band,...dissapearing after a short time

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Festoon

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to dress up, decorate, embellish

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Gambol

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To frolic

Like we will when the English Final is over!!!

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Maudlin

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sentimental, overly emotional

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Pallor

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paleness, unhealthy looking

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Remuneration

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a payment or reward for goods or service

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Venal

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Open to bribery, corrupt, able to be bought, especially illegal

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand, not easily understood, perplexing

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Apostasy

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renunciation of faith

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Bauble

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trinket of little value

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Bullion

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bars of gold or silver

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Fresco

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Wall painting

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Frugal

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thrifty, involving little expense

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Iridescent

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having rainbow colors

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Opulence

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of great wealth or riches

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Promontory

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peninsula, land that runs out into the sea

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Abscond

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To escpae normally with money from the law

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adjure

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To order someone to do somthig

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Aspersion

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A slanderous remeark

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Circumvent

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To find a way to avoid restricitons

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Ethereal

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Delicate, light

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Ignominy

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Total humiliation, dishonor

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Malign

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Harmful or evil remark

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Malinger

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to fake illness, to play hookey

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Prognosis

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forcast, prediciton

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Remonstrate

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to argue strongly

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Biennial

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Happening every 2 years

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Temerity

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boldness, reckless confidence

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Vestige

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Trace or sign of somthgin previously being there

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Vindicate

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To clear someone of guilt or blame, o justify another

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Differnentiate

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to distinguish

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Disparity

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lack of equality

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Empirical

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Based on observation of an experiment rather than theory

Mmmmmm...emprical formulas

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Facetious

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somthing meant jokingly

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Officious

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charecteristic of one who is bossy, gives unwanted advice

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Quiescent

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Quiet, inactive

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Renounce

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To give up somthing or to reject

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Scathing

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highly critcal and scornful

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Testimonial

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Report on qualities, etc. You should know this one

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Treatise

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Detailed written acount of somthing

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Chauvinism

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sense of superiority, prejudice

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Cosmopolitan

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International, occring worldwide, multi-ethnic

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Devoid

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Completely lacking

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Epitome

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Someone who posses high quality features

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Inexorable

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Unstoppable

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Moot

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Debatable or an argumenr

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Regimen

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Routine

...Asprin Regimen

Cousult your doctor before begining one...

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Repository

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Somthing used for storage, somone with extensive knowledge

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Sagacity

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wisdom, profound knowledge

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Tenuous

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Weak and unconvincing, liable to break

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Bode

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to be an indication of somthign that is about to happen

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Burnish

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to polish or shine

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Cocree

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To force someone to do somthign they dont want to do

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Esoteric

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Only understood by a few, an inside joke, difficult to understand

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Gauntier

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A glove with a wide cuff

(Why would we ever need to know this...ever?)

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Mete

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To distribute out of a boundary

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Misnomer

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a wrong or unsuitable name for somthing

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Mottled

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Somthing with spotted colors, or patches of color,

Think: Dalmation or Calico Cat

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Terra Firma

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Land

Yeah

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Acrimonious

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Full of or displaying anger

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Anachronism

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Somthing wrongly placed on a timeline

Like the tolling of the clock in Julius caeser....or the Caveman in the Geico commercials!

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Atrophy

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Wasting away shinking in size

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Consternation

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a feeling of bewilderment or dismay

Much of what we feel when we're handed vocab quizzes

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Desist

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To cease (ha)
To stop

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Enigma

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mystery, riddle

In batman Edward Nigma (E.Nigma=The RIDDLER!)

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Expound

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To explain and give a description of somthing

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Loquacious

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Wordy, long winded, tending to talk alot
Cough*Charles Dickens*Cough

or

ZANZIBAR!

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Precursor

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somthing that comes before somthing

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Voluminous

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Big, Huge, having alot of volume,

LIKE KELSEYS HAIR!

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Assiduous

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Careful dillignt, constant

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Aver

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To to state confidently, to avow

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Cessation

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a Stop, pause or interuption

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Denizen

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Resident of a place, someone who lives in an area

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Chastise

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To tell off, punish or scold

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Demagogue

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Gaining power by appealing ot ones emotions

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Deplore

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To regret or feel greif

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Detriment

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A disadvantage

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Emanate

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To originate from or to be sent out

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Harbinger

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Omen

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Intercede

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to attempt to mediate a dispute, to plead on someones behalf

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Irrevocable

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Unable to be recalled

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Obnoxious

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Billy

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Prevaricate

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To beat around the bush, avoid giving a direct and onest answer

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Anarchy

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Soceity without law

"ANARCHY! ANARCHY! I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS, BUT ITS AWESOME" -Texas Ranger Bobby, Talledega Nights

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Cajole

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to persuade, flatter, hoax

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Commodious

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Spacious and convienient, roomy

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Ethnology

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Study of ethnic groups

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Extricate

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to free someone from a situation

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Impair

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To lessedn the quality or strength of somthing

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Menial

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low and degrading A domestic servant

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Nadir

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the lowest point

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Pestilence

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a plague

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Rampant

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growing wildly

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Cadaverous

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Corpse-like

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Consign

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to entrust, to put into someones care

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Elocution

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The art of speaking clearly and correctly

The art of speaking good.

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Incorrigible

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Beyond correction, fixed, unchangable

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Maim

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To impair, usually by the loss of a limb

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Profuse

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Generous in giving

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Promulgate

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to make known, broadcast

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Strident

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Loud, shrill

Also,a brand of Gum?

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Subversion

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attempt to overthrow the government

Like Mandela, if you read it, HA!

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Calumny

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False accusation, makign a false statement with malicious intent

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Contingency

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An event that may occur in the future, usually an emergency

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Impassive

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no emotion

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Litigation

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Lawsuit

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Mollify

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to calm or soothe

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Propensity

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tendency to demonstrate a certain behaviour

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Recant

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To take back somthgin previously stated, or deny believing somthing

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Repudiate

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To deny, to state that somthing is untrue

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Retaliate

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payback, to hurt someone for what they have doe

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Sedentary

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Not moving

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Auspices

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A promising sign in the future

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Clandestine

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Secret underground, usually illegal

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Fervid

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Showing extreme passion or enthusiasm

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Foment

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to start a rebellion

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Hiatus

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a pause break or interuption

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Reticent

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unwilling to talk alot

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Solicitous

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Anxious and concerned about somthing or someone

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Capricious

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tending to make unpredictable changes

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Elicit

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To provoke somthgin to happen, to draw out

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Emaciate

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to become suddenly skinny

Think of those dogs on the Rescue shows

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Extort

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Obtain by forece, agressive negotiations

(JACK BAUER)

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Fiasco

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A total failure, flop

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Longevity

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long life

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Reprisal

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Retaliation, payback, vengance

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Taciturn

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Silent by nature