Sanford Vocab List 1

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affront

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verb to offend or insult someone openly or intentionally

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antic

Back 2

noun, amusing or eccentric behavior

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appurtenance

Back 3

noun, an accompart or feature of something; something added to another

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arras

Back 4

noun, a tapestry used as a wall hanging

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behoove

Back 5

verb to be right and proper for somebody

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circumscribe

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to draw a line around

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conjure

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verb to summon supernatural forces

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contrive

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verb, to devise a plan in a creative manner

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expostulate

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to express disagreement or approval

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extant

Back 10

adj, still in existence

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fetter

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noun, something that serves to restrict

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importune

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verb, to ask someone continually for something

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jocund

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adj cheerful and good humor

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judicious

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adj, showing wisdom, good sense of direction

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lewd

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adj, sexual in an offensive way

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libertine

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noun related esp,. to a man who acts immortal way

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molt

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to shed feathers, hair, feathers

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obsequious

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adj excessively eager to please

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offal

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noun something discarded as refuse;regarded as unpalatable

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orison

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noun a prayer

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preuse

Back 21

to read or examine something in a leisurely way

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portentous

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adjective very serious and signifigant; foreboding or ominous, esp in terms of future

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precept

Back 23

rules, instruction or principles that guides a person's actions

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primal

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adj, being first in time

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purgation

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act of purging, (to remove)

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rank

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noun status of relative to others (adj) to insult

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retrograde

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adj; moving backward in space or time

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sullied

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to spoil, tarnish, or detract

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surmise

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verb to infer something without sufficiently conluscive evidence

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tenable

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adj, with reasonable and sufficient evidence to support an assertion or arguement

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traduce

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verb to cause humilitation or disgrace by making malicious statements

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usurp

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verb to take possession without legal permission

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Wanton

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adj without restrain or inhibition without reason or porvocation

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wax

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verb to get into a particular or emotional state; to increase in power

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wont

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adjective; accustomed or likely to do something