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Tom Sawyer
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Literature
7th Grade
03/28/2010
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profane
 Definition
to defile
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discordant
 Definition
disagreeing,clashing,dissonant
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felicity
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happiness
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Pathos
 Definition
a feeling of sympathetic pity
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Beseech
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beg someone to do something, implore
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morose
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sullen, gloomy, plaintive, lugbrious
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construe
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to infer
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audacious
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bold, swaggering, blustering, arrogant
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pliant
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easiley influenced, yielding, flexible
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furitive
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stealthy, sneaky, surreptitious, convert
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evanescent
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fleeting, short-lived
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intrepid
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fearless, resolute, fortitude, and endurance
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alacrity
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promptness, cheerful, readiness

 
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adamantine
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determined, persistent, rigidly
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ambuscade
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ambush
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derision
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ridicule, mockery, scorch
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glowering
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to stare angrily
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sidiling
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move sideways
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sagacity
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wisdom, good judgement, prudence
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guile
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deceit, duplicity
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