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Vocabulary Lesson 1
BOWEN
23
Language - English
11th Grade
09/03/2009

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Term
Interloper
Definition
One who intrudes by meddling or trespassing on the rights of others.
Term
Internecine
Definition
Very Desructive to both sides in a conflict; involving slaughter and carnage: Pertaining to struggle or conflict within a group, organization, or nation.
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Interpolate
Definition
To insert or add something between other parts, especially in a text or written work: To introduce material that severely alters a text or falsifies it.
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Interregnum
Definition
Any period of time when a state is without a ruler or has a provisional government, especially between the reign of a sovereign and a successor.
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Interpose
Definition
To insert between parts of something, to interject in a conversation. To apply pressure or influence; to meddle; to interfere.
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Juxtapose
Definition
To place side by side.
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Propinquity
Definition
Nearness, proximity; Kinship.
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Rapprochement
Definition
Reconciliation; restoration of cordial relations, especially between two countries.
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Quiescent
Definition
At rest; dormant; motionless.
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Acquiesce
Definition
To agree or consent without any objection.
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Unrequited
Definition
Not reciprocal; not given in payment or returned in kind.
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Requiem
Definition
A mass or service for the repose of departed souls; music. poetry, or other composition for the dead.
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Abstruse
Definition
Difficult to understand; complex.
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Extrude
Definition
To push or thrust out of a liquid or malleable substance that retains or solidifies into a predetermined shape.
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Obtrude
Definition
To force on ideas or oneself insistently upon others;To thrust or push out; to protrude noticeably, often in an undesirable way.
Term
ROOT: Inter
Definition
Between
Term
ROOT: Pono, Ponere
Definition
To put, to place
Term
ROOT: Prope
Definition
Near
Term
ROOT: Propinquus
Definition
Near
Term
ROOT: Quies, Quietis
Definition
Quiet, Rest
Term
ROOT: Quiesco, Quiescere
Definition
To rest, to remain quiet
Term
ROOT: Trudo, Trudere
Definition
to push
Term
The phrase "May he or she rest in peace"
Definition
Requiescat in pace
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