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School Vocabulary 2/02/12
lesson 32
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Language - English
11th Grade
02/01/2012
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Term
amenity
 Definition
agreeable ways or manners; quality of being agreeable or plesant
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anathema
 Definition
a vigorous denunciation;
one who is intensely disliked
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atypical
 Definition
unusual or abnormal;
odd
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balky
 Definition
contrary
refusing to proceed in an expected direction
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bourgeois
 Definition
middle class
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concert
 Definition
agreement in purpose or feeling, united
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confluence
 Definition
a coming together (joint)
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corpulence
 Definition
obesity
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dirge
 Definition
funeral hymn, lament
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disconcerting
 Definition
upsetting, frustrating
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endemic
 Definition
peculiar to or a trait of a group or area
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indict
 Definition
to charge or accuse
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latent
 Definition
not visible, dormant
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monumental
 Definition
of importance
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oscillating
 Definition
moving back and forth
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pithy
 Definition
concise and meaningful
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*****premeditated*****
 Definition
thought out beforehand
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presage
 Definition
something that foreshadows a future event;
foreknowledge of the future
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quixotic
 Definition
idealistic but impracticalre
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reserve
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self-restraint
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stasis
 Definition
motionless, stagnation
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warranted
 Definition
justified
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