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Vocab 19-21
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Language - English
11th Grade
02/22/2009
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Indict
 Definition
To accuse of a crime
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Elocution
 Definition
The art of public speaking
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Soliloquy
 Definition
A dramatic monologue
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Loquacious
 Definition
Very talkative; garrulous
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Interlocutor
 Definition
Someone who participates in a dialog
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Wrest
 Definition
To obtain with violent twisting motions
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Obviate
 Definition
To prevent by anticipating
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Stultify
 Definition
To render useless or inadequate
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Surfeit
 Definition
An excessive amount
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Parsimony
 Definition
Unusual or excessive frugality
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Pinnacle
 Definition
The highest point
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Raze
 Definition
To tear down or demolish
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Insatiable
 Definition
Incapable of being satisfied
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Inundate
 Definition
To overwhelm as if with a flood
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Benediction
 Definition
An invocation of divine blessing
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Voluminous
 Definition
Having great volume
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Edict
 Definition
A formal proclamation or decree
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Despoil
 Definition
To take by force, robbing
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Deleterious
 Definition
To have a harmful effect
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Replete
 Definition
Plentifully supplied, abounding
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Tumult
 Definition
A disorderly moment of people
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Interdict
 Definition
To prohibit of forbid
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Myriad
 Definition
A very large indefinite number
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Surmount
 Definition
To overcome
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Colloquium
 Definition
Seminar on a broad area of study
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Avarice
 Definition
An extreme desire for wealth; greed
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Effectual
 Definition
Having the desired effect
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Prodigal
 Definition
Recklessly wasteful
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Grandiloquence
 Definition
Pompous or bombastic speech
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Jettison
 Definition
To discard as unwanted or burdensome
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