Vocab World Lists 7-9

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Apiary

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A place where bees are raised for honey

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Byzantine

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The eastern portion of the Roman Empire which became the Byzantine Empire; Of writes of the Eastern Orthodox Church

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Cormorant

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Large diving bird with webbed feet, hook beak, lonk neck; sea raven

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Ewer

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Large jug with a wide spout

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Gordian Knot

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Complicated problem; COmes from a Greek legend about an impossible knot that Alexander the Great cut with his sword

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mea culpa

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Admission of one's guilt or fault

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ort

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Scrap of food remaining from a meal

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ospery

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Fish eating hawk with long wings, white head, dark strip around the eyes

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patagium

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Loose fold of skin between fore and hind limbs, used as a gliding aid

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ramada

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Open porch or trellis supporting plants

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repudiate

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To reject as unfounded, untrue, unjust, invalid

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right brained/left brained

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RB- Of or relating to creativity and imagination
LB- Of or relating to logic and calculations

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samsara

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The eternal cycle of birth, suffering, death, and rebirth

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sartorious

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Flat narrow thigh muscle, longest of human anatomy

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tattarrattat

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The longest one word palindrome in the English language

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thimblerig

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A swindling sleight of hand game; victim guesses which cup the pellet is under

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Tyro

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A beginner in or at something

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Unlettered

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Not adept at reading or writing

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Vespucci

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Italian navigator and explorer of the South American Coast

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Whey

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Watery part of milk that separates liquid from the curds

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Whey-faced

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Having a pale or white face

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Auspicious

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Marked by lucky signs or good omens

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Belie

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To disguise the true nature of something

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Edelweiss

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Small plant with wooly leaves

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Fjord

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Narrow coastal inlet with steep sides, formed by glacial action

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Gloaming

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The period of fading light after sunset, but before dark

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In media res

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Straight in or into the middle of a sequence of events; especially in a literary narrative

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Lorelei

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In a German legend, a beautiful woman said to loive on a rock near the Rhine river and lure sailors to the rocks with enchanting songs

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Mansard

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Double slanted roof

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Mitosis

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Cell division where two daughter cells have the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell

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Nihlism

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The general rejection of established social conventions and beliefs especially morality and religion

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Periwinkle

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Pale purplish color

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Quell

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Bring something to end, usually by force

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Reuben

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Grilled sandwich of rye bread filled with cornbeef, sauerkraut, swiss cheese, and thousand island dressing

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Sanguine

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Of a blood red color; confident or optomistic

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Tectonic

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Relating to forces that produce the movment and deformation of the Earth's crust

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Umbrage

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Resentment or annoyance arising from some offence

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Vesuvius

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Active volcano that destroed Pompeii during an eruption

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Lech Walsea

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The leader of the Solidarity labor movement in Poland, and later the President of Poland

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Xerxes I

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Great Persian leader and general who invaded Greece, but was later assassinated

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Zareba

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Outdoor enclosure especially one made of bushes and brush

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Amy Dardin Case

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Woman who sued for compensation for her stolen horse during the Revolutionary Warq

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Bodkin

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A long thick blunt needle with a large eye

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Carpe Diem

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Used as an invocation to enjoy the present and not worry about the future

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Gladiolus

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Widely grown plant with long sword shaped leaves

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Hemoglobin

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Iron containing protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen

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Infrastructure

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Bsasic level of organizational structure in a body, system, building, etc

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Kinetic

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Relating to, caused by, or producing motion

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Lexicon

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Reference book that lists words and definitions in alphabetical order; dictionary

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Moiety

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either of two parts into which something can be divided

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Notarize

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To certify something such as a signature on a legal document by affixing a stamp of approval

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Osceola

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Seminole leader who fought the Americans in Flordia, but was killed by Andrew Jackson

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Pica

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A unit of measurement for printing type

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Queue

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Line; list of computer data

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Rookery

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Colony of rooks nesting in the tree tops

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Ship of Fools

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Ships containing the insane that sailed up and down the Rhine river in Germany

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Teasel

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Prickly plant whos flowers are covered with hooked leaves

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Tempura

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Japanese dish of vegetables or seafood covered in light batter or deep fried

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Vacuous

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Lacking ideas or intelligence, or showing such a lack

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Welkin

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Sky, heaven, or upper air

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Zonnosis

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Disease of animals like rabies which can infect humans