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vocab unit 9
7th grade
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7th Grade
03/30/2008

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Auxilery
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adj: giving assistance

noun: a helper

 

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Candid
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adj: frank, sincere, impartial

syn: forthright, plain spoken

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Cubicle
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noun: small room or compartmant
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Drudgery
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syn: toil, labor, grind

noun

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envoy
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noun: a representitive or messenger as of government. ambassador

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escalate
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verb: raise, increase in intesity
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expedient
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noun: ea means to an end

adj: advantageous, useful, devise

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feign
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verb: to pretend, fake, sham, affect, simulate
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flair
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noun: a natural quality, talent, or skill
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grievous
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adj: painful, heart rending

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heterogeneous
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adj: composed of many kinds, mixed, diverse.
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horde
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noun: a vast number of people, crowd, mass, swarm
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impel
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verb: to force, push, propel
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incredulous
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adj: not credible, disbleieving, dubious
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inscribe
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verb: to write, engrave, imprint
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monologue
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noun: speech by one actor, soliloquy
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prognosis
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noun: prediction, forcast the outcome of a disease
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rasping
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adj: with a harsh sound, scratchy,

noun: a harsh sound

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repuganant
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adj: affensive, ugly, distastful, revulting

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scuttle
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verb: to sink a ship by cutting holes in it, to get rid of something, to run, scurry

noun: pail

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