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Roots Vocab 3rd 6 weeks.
Mrs.McDaniel's
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Literature
10th Grade
12/12/2011

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Infidel
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a person who does not accept a particular faith, especially Christianity.
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Diffident
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lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.
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Formative
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giving form or shape; forming; shaping; fashioning; molding: a formative process in manufacturing.
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Acuity
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sharpness; acuteness; keenness: acuity of vision; acuity of mind.
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Mortified
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to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect.
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Juncture
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a point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances: At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out.
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Anthropomorphic
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ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human, especially to a deity.
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Acute
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sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
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Mortgage
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a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
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Amorphous
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lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless: the amorphous clouds.
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Disjointed
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having the joints or connections separated: a disjointed fowl.
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Metamorphosed
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to change the form or nature of; transform.
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Mortally
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subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
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Conjunction
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any member of a small class of words distinguished in many languages by their function as connectors between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences, as and, because, but, however.
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Injunction
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Law . a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
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perfidious
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deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
 
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Acrid
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sharp or biting to the taste or smell; bitterly pungent; irritating to the eyes, nose, etc.: acrid smoke from burning rubber.
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Exacerbates
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to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of (disease, ill feeling, etc.); aggravate.
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Findelity
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strict observance of promises, duties, etc.: a servant's fidelity.
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Morbid
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suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
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Formulaic
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made according to a formula; composed of formulas: a formulaic plot.
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Defy
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to challenge the power of; resist boldly or openly: to defy parental authority.
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Acrimonious
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caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature, speech, behavior, etc.: an acrimonious answer; an acrimonious dispute.
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Subjugation
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the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
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