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11th Grade
08/22/2011
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Accusatory
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Charged of wrong doing accusing
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Apathetic
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Not interested little emotion lack energy
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Awe
 Definition
Serious wonder
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Bitter
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Showing strong angercause pain greif
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Cynical
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Question the basic sincerity of people
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Condescension condescending
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Feeling. Superiority
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Callous
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Unfeeling insensitive to others feeling
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Contemplative
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Studing reflection issue
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CriticAl
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Finding fault
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Choleric
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Hot tempered
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Contemptuous
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Feeling showing something is worthless
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Caustic
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Intense use of sarcasm
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Conventional
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Lacking spontaneity originality
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Conventional
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Lacking spontaneity originality
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Disdainful
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Scornful arrogant
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Didactic
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Authe attempt to educated reader
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Derisive
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Mocking
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Earnest
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Intense sincere state of mind
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Erudite
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Learned Polish scholarly
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Fanciful
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Use imagation
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Forth right
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Directly frank without hesitation
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Gloomy
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Darkness sadness rejection
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Haughty
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Proud vain point to arrogance
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Ineignant
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Marked by angry aroused by injustice
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Intimate
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Very familiar
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Judgmental
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Having critical opinions auhoritwtive
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Jovial
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Happy
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Lyrical
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Expressing poet inner feeling song like
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Matter of fact
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Accepting of conditions not emotional
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Mocking
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Ridicule
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Morose
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Gloomy sulen
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Malicious
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Purposly hurtful
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Objective
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Unbaised viewable to leave Personal judgment aside
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Optimistic
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Hopeful cheerful
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Obsequious
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Polite obedient to gain something
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Patronizing
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Air of condescension
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Pessimistic
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Seeing worst side
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Quizzical
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Odd eccentric amusing
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Ribald
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Offenaive inspeech or gesture
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Reverent
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Treating subject with honor
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Ridiculing
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Slighty contemptuous banter making fun of
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Reflective
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Illustrating inner most thoughts emotions
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Sarcastic
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Sneering caustic
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Sardonic
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Scornfully and bitterly sarcastic
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Satiric
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RidiCuling to show weakness in order to make point
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Sincere
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Without deceit pretense genuine
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Solemn
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Deeply earnest tending towards sad reflection
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Sanguineous
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Optimistic cheerful
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Whimsical
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Odd strong fantastic fun
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