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English Lit Vocab 1-4
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Literature
12th Grade
03/05/2012

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Cogent
Definition

adj

appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convencing

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Exigent
Definition

adj

immediate aid or action; demanding

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Assay
Definition

adj

to be analized and judged; evaluated; examine;

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Intransigent
Definition
uncompromising; doesnt change
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Incite
Definition

verb

to stir up an action

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Resuscitate
Definition

verb

to revive from apparent death or unconsciousness

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Solicitous
Definition

adj

full of concern or fears; manefesting or expressing solicitude

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Pertub
Definition

verb

caused to be worried or upset; confusion

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Turbulent
Definition

adj

violent disturbance of force; characterized by confusion

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Turbid
Definition

adj

thick, cloudy, murky, muddy

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Alacrity
Definition

noun

cheerful readiness

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Celerity
Definition

noun

rapidity of motion or action

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Degenerate
Definition

verb

decline or deteriorate physically, mentally, or morally

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Engender
Definition

verb

cause or give rise to; a feeling, situation, or condition; to produce

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Genre
Definition

noun

a category or artistic composition, as in music or literature, literary type

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Cognate
Definition

adj

having the same linguistic derivation as another; same as root word

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Innate
Definition

adj

organized in the mind, in born, natural, realted by birth

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Nascent
Definition

adj

not yet fully developed

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Transfigure
Definition

verb

to change the appearance of a person or thing very much

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Fictive
Definition

adj

creating or created by imagination; imaginary

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Feign
Definition

verb

pretend to be affected by ( a feeling, state, or injury)

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Parturient
Definition

adj

about to give birth; in labor

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Repertory
Definition

noun

the performance of various plays, operas, or ballets by a company at regular short intervals

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Vehement
Definition

adj

strongly/ passionate "meaning what they say"

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Inveigh
Definition

verb

to protest strongly

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Surmise
Definition

noun- a guess

verb- to guess

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Demise
Definition

noun

death

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Remit
Definition

verb

to make a payment

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Emblematic
Definition

adj

symbolic

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Diabolical
Definition

adj

evil

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Hyperbole
Definition

noun

exaggerating "intentional"

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Episodic
Definition

adj

occuring every now and then

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Methodical
Definition

adj

organized, orderly, systematic

Term
Synod
Definition

noun

commity "church"

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Agrarion
Definition

adj

relating to land, land tenure, or the division of landed property

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Pregrination
Definition

noun- to travel from one place to another, sepecially on foot

verb- a course of travel, journey

Term
Aggregate
Definition

noun- sum, mass, or assemblage of particulars, a total or gross amount

verb- to bring together, collect the sum, mass or body.

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Egregious
Definition
extrordinary in some way, glaring, fragrant
Term
PAstoral
Definition

adj

having the simplicity, charm, serinity, or other characteristics generally attributes to rural areas

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Repast
Definition

noun

a quantity of food taken or provided for one occasion of eating

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Brclolic
Definition

adj

of, performing to, or sugesting

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Ruslic
Definition

adj

made of roughly dressed liwibsea or rules of mees, as gowden seats

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Idyllic
Definition

adj

of pertaining to or characterisitcs of an idyll

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Frultion
Definition

adv

attainment of anyhting desired, realization

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Fruitless
Definition

adv

useless

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Gregorious
Definition

adj

fond of the compart or others; sociable

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