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Vocab Unit 5
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Language - English
11th Grade
02/03/2010

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antipathy
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n. firm dislike, a dislike
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infer
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v. to question/to guess
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ostentatious
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adj. showing off; excessively conspicuous
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ostentatious
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adj. showing off; excessively conspicuous
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ostentatious
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adj. showing off; excessively conspicuous
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palliate
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v. to relieve or alleviate something without getting rid of the problem; to assuage; to mitigate
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pathology
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n. the sience of diseases
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reciprocal
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adj. mutual; shared; interchangeable
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spurious
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adj. false; fake
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subjugate
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v. to subdue and dominate; to enslave
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substantive
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adj. having substance; real; essential; solid; substantial
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surreptitious
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adj sneaky; secret
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fer
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(to bring; to carry; to bear) offer, transfer, confer, referendum, infer, fertile, proffer, defer, proliferate, vociferous
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pas/pat/path
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(feeling, suffering, disease) apathy, sympathy, empathy, antipathy, passionate, compassion, compatible, dispassionate, impassive, pathos, pathology, sociopath, psychopath
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sub/sup
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(below) submissive, subsidary, subjugate,subliminal, subdue, sublime, subtle, subversive
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anti
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(against) antidote, antiseptic, antipathy, antipodal
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ante
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(before) ante, anterior, antecedent, antedate, antebellum, antidiluvian
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