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Vocab-2
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Language - English
11th Grade
08/19/2009

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Mordant
Definition
(adj) bitingly sarcastic, incisive, caustic in manner
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Moribund
Definition
(adj) being in a dying or decaying condition
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Munificent
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(adj) generous
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Neophyte
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(n) a beginner, a novice
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Officious
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(adj) unnecessarily helpful, meddlesome, interfering
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Omnivorous
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(adj) eating or absorbing everything, feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
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Oscillate
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(v) to swing back and forth
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Ossify
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(v) to become rigid, to become set in one's ways
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Palliate
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(v) to hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies, to ease without curing
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Pallid
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(adj) lacking color, wan
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Panegyric
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(n) lofty praise, eulogistic writing
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Parsimonious
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(adj) Stingy
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Penury
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(n) Extreme poverty
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Perfidious
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(adj) faithless, untrustworthy
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Perfunctory
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(adj) careless, unenthusiastic, done merely as duty
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Perorate
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(v) to make a long, formal speech, to sum up a speech
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Perspicacious
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(adj) shrewd, astute, showing strong powers of discernment
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Petulant
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(adj) cranky, ill tempered, irritable, peevish
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Piquant
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(adj) pungent, charmingly provocative
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Prescient
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(adj) having foresight
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Prevaricate
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(v) to deviate from the truth
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Profligate
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(adj) corrupt, degenerate, wildly extravagant
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Propinquity
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(adj) nearness in place or time, kinship
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Protean
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(adj) readily assuming different shapes or characters
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Putrefy
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(v) to rot
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Recalcitrant
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(adj) stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
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Recondite
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(adj) hard to understand, abstruse, over one's head
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Reprobate
Definition
(n) a morally unprincipled person, a scoundrel
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Reticent
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(adj) restrained, reluctant, uncommunicative
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Ribaldry
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(adj) vulgar or indecent language
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Sagacious
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(adj) wise, shrewd
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Salubrious
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(adj) favorable to health
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Scotch
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(v) to put an end to
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Sinuous
Definition
(adj) winding, having many curves
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Striated
Definition
(adj) marked with thin lines or grooves
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Supercillious
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(adj) arrogant, overbearing, condescending
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Surreptitious
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(adj) sneaky, secret
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Sycophant
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(n) a flatterer, a self-serving yes-man
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Temerity
Definition
(adj) boldness, rashness, audacity
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Truculent
Definition
(adj) hostile, aggressive, savage
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Vacuous
Definition
(adj) empty, lacking intelligence
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