Mrs. Dougherty- End Of Unit Vocab

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Abject

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deserving contempt; sunk to a low condition; wretched

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Abstemious

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Sparing in eating and drinking; temperate; abstinent

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Abysmal

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deep; profound; immeasurably great

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Acme

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highest point; pinnacle summit; zenith

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Alacrity

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cheerful willingness; readiness; liveliness

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Antediluvian

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antiquated; belonging to the time before the Biblical Flood

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Axiom

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self-evident truth; maxim

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Callow

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young and inexperienced; unfledged

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Cogitate

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think over; consider with care; ponder; deliberate

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Consummate

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perfect; superb; carried to the highest degree

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Crux

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most important point; essential part

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Declivious

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downward slope

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Diffident

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lacking self confidence;unduly timid; shy

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Dogmatic

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asserting opinions as if they were facts; opinionated; asserted without proof; doctrinaire

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Dregs

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most worthless part; sediment at the bottom of a liquid

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Dross

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waste; refuse

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Ethereal

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of the heavens; celestial; airy; delicate; intangible

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Eclectic

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choosing (ideas, methods, etc.) from various sources

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Expurgated

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removed objectionable material from a book; bowdlerize; purified

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Filial

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of or like a son or daughter

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Flotsam

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wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on the sea; driftage

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Heterodox

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rejecting regularly accepted beliefs or doctrines; heretical; noncomformist

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Hoary

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white or gray with age; ancient

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Ingratiate

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work (one self) into favor

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Inveterate

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firmly established by age; deep-rooted; habitual

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Jetsam

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goods cast overboard to lighten a ship in distress

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Loathe

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have an intense aversion to; detest

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Malleable

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capable of being shaped by hammering
adaptable; pliant

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Nadir

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lowest point

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Nepotism

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favoritism to relatives by those in power

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Nugatory

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of little or no value' trifling; worthless; useless

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Orthodox

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generally accepted, especially in religion' conventional' approved

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Ostentatious

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done to impress others; showy; pretentious

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Overweening

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thinking too highly of oneself; arrogant; presumtious

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Precipitous

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steep as a precipice
hasty; rash

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Prelapsarian

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of the time or state before the fall of mankind

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Primordial

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existing at the very beginning
elementary; primary; first in order

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Progenitor

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forefather

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Propinquity

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kinship
nearness of place; proximity

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Puerile

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foolish for a grown person to say or do
childish

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Rotund

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rounded out; plump; full-toned

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Sophistry

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clever but deceptive reasoning

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Staid

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settled; of quiet disposition; sedate

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Sublimate

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redirect the energy of a person's bad impulses into socially and morally higher channels; purify;refine

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Superannuated

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retired on a pension; advanced in years; very old

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Tenable

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capable of being maintained or defended; defensible

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Venerable

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worth of respect because of advanced age, achievement, virtue or historical importance

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Volition

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Will

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Zenith

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highest point; culmination; peak; point in the heavens directly overhead