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Emerson/Hawthorn Vocabulary
Mills Block 3
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Language - English
10th Grade
11/09/2010
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sagacity
 Definition
wise
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sojourn
 Definition
an excursion, a journey
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requital
 Definition
the return of a favor
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emolument
 Definition
compensation, payment
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antiquarian
 Definition
old
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palsied
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shaky
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maw
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mouth
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contumacious
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obstinant, unbending
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insidious
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evil
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pennance
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a punishment for a sin, usually by the church
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impalpable
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difficult for the mind to grasp, YOU DONT EVEN KNOW DUDE
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obsequious
 Definition
obediant to an excessive degree
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ephemeras
 Definition
airy, insubstantial
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caprice
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a spontaneous feeling
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anathemas
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something you cannot stand
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cuirass
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a peice of armor
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behest
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one's request
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caravan
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a group of people moving together
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conspicuous
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obviously seen/known
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nonchalance
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cool, cal, collected. the attitude one needs when tossing the disc.
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magnetism
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powerful attraction
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quixotic
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resembling Don Quixote, impulse
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natal
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relating to birth
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vixenly
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being like a hot babe
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progenitors
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the direct ancestors
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laudable
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commendable
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consanguinity
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related by blood
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reid
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to pull apart
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vaticination
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to think deeply
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forsooth
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to think deeply
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cabal
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relating to a satanic group
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erudite
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intelligent
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ignominy
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public sin
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profligacy
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excess
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pervade
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to spread throughout
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prurient
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nosy, in one's bidniss
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physiognomie
 Definition
one's facial structure
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amenable
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agreeable
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preternatrally
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unusually active imagination, unbelievable
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imperious
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domineering, overbearing, urgent
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sexton
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a court/church official
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betwixt
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between
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catechism
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a religious test
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imbibed
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dranked
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iniquity
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a wrong doing
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vagrant
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one who moves about
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heterodox
 Definition
a belief in things that are diffurrint
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