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Up an Down lessons 5 and 6
I don't want to but i have to lessons five and six
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Language - English
10th Grade
11/30/2009

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bas-relief
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Suculpture whose ornament or figures ar somewhat raised above the background
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Debase
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To lower in quaility,value, or dignity; to degrade.
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Declivity
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A downward slope:the slope of a hill
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Proclivity
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A natural inclination or tendency
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Levan
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A substance like yeast or a small amount of fermented dough that causes dough to expand.
A lightening or enlivening of infulence
To provid a lightening infulunce
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Legerdemain
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Sleight of hand:magic tricks
Any trickry or deception
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Leverage
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The aciton of a lever that raises or lifts
Power to infulence, position of strenght
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levitate
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To rise or float, or cause to rise,seemingly despite gravity
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levity
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Lightness in speech or behavior,especially unbecoming jocularity,frivolity
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Penchant
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A strong inclination or liking
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Ponderous
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Estremely heavy:massive
Unwieldly or awkward
Dull or tedious
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imponderable
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Unable to be assessed or measured precisely
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Preponderant
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Superior in number ,force , power or importance
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echelon
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Astep like fromation of troops ships or aicraft
A level of command or authority
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transcendent
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Going beyond the limits of ordinary experience
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incumbent
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A person who holds an office or position
Already holding office or position
Required as a duty or obligation(on)
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recumbent
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reclining, or lying down
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succumb
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to yield, to give in or give up, espeially to a powerful force or desire(to)
To die
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hypochondria
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a psycological disorder characterized by the illusory conviction that one is ill or in pain,or likely to become so.
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hypothesis
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A theory or explanation tht leads to further investigation for proof or disproof.
An assumption on which a conclusion or decision is based.
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cataclysm
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A disaster or catastrpohe on such a large scale that biological environmental, or cultural elements are permanently altered or irreparably lost to the earth
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catapult
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an ancient mechanical device for hurling missiles
A modern mechanism for launching aircraft from the deck of a ship
to hurl or launch suddenly
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Subjective
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concentrating on the self in the expression of feeling and perceptions
Relating to personal opinions and thought processes rather than factual information or universal esperience
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Sublimate
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To turn aside an instinctual, perhaps primitive impulse in favor of a more socially or culturally acceptable activity
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suborn
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To induce a person in secret to commit a misdeed or crime.
To induce someone to give false tesimony.
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subterfuge
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An artifice, device, or evasion to hide or avoid something, or to escape an outcome
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verisimilitude
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A thing or a qualility that appears true or real
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verity
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The condition or quality of veing true or accurate
A belief,principal,or statement of expressing some basic human truth
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aver
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To affirm to declare or attest to positively or dogmatically.
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aver
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To affirm to declare or attest to positively or dogmatically.
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