Pre-AP English 2A #61-120
Terms
undefined, object
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- cabal
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Noun
the plot of a group of persons secretly united to bring about an overturn - cadre
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noun
frame, framework; the nucleus or core of a group - canon
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noun
a regulation decreed by a church council - Law; the authentic works of an author; - cant
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noun
singsong or whining speech - celestial
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adj
relating to heaven or divinity, or sky or visible heavens - clew
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noun
a ball of thread, yarn or cord - consecrate
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verb
to induct into a permanent office with a religious rite - corporeal
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adj
having or relating to a physical material body; not spiritual - corpulent
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adj
having a large bulky body - cower
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verb
to shrink away for shelter - desitute
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adj
lacking something needed or desirable; suffering extreme poverty - dexterity
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noun
mental skill or quickness; esp in hands - dudgeon
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noun
a state of anger; offense - emigrate
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verb
to leave one's place and move to live else where - emit
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verb
to throw or give off; Eject - forte
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noun
one's strong point usage; strongest part of the blade - gape
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verb
to open widely, esp mouth - hiatus
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noun
the gap or passage between things; an interruption in time or continuity: Break - humble
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adj
not proud or haught, not arrogant: Insignificant, unpretentious - hygienic
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adj
possessing or promoting hygiene - icon
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noun
a pictorial representation: Image, Symbol - ignoble
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adj
of low birth or common origin: Plebeian; mean <-thank you, JK as in I am mean to Vicky Fan. =D - innate
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adj
existing in, belonging to a person from birth: Inherent, Inborn - inter
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verb
to deposit (a dead body) - jape
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verb
to make fun of - jargon
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noun
confused unintelligible language - jeopardy
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noun
exposure to death, loss, or injury: Danger - jocose
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adj
characterized by joking: Humorous - junta
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noun
a group of person controlling a government esp after a revolutionary seizure of power - keep
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noun
prison, jail; one whose job is to keep or tend: Keeper - ken
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noun
the range of vision: Sight, View - keynote
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noun or adj
the central fact, idea, mood or theme
or Keynote Speaker - labored
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adj
produced or perfomred with labor; lacking ease - loge
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noun
a small compartment: Booth - lucre
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noun
monetary gain: Profit, Money - maim
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verb
to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously - mundane
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adj
charactreized by the practical, transitory, and ordinary: Commonplace - mercenary
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noun or adj
one that serves merely for wages - milieu
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noun
the phsycial or social setting in which something occurs or develops: Environment - municipal
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adj
of the internal affairs of a major political unit; having local self-government - nascent
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adj
coming or having recently come into existence - negligent
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adj
marked by neglect esp habitually - negligible
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adj
so small or unimportant to warrant little or no attention: Trifling - null
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adj
having no leagl or binding force: Invalid, Void - ordnance
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noun
military supplies: cannon artilary - ovate
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adj
shaped like an egg - perforate
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verb
to make a hole through - plastic
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adj
susceptible of being modified in form or nature: Pliable, Pliant, Ductile, Malleable, Adaptable - pogrom
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noun
an organized massacre of helpless people - preclude
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verb
to rule out in advance - quail
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verb
to give way: Falter, Wither, Decline - queue
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noun
waiting line - quittance
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noun
discharge from a debt or an obligation - rapt
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adj
transported with emotion: Enraptured, Engrossed - sedentary
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adj
not migratory: Settled - shanty
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noun
small crudely built dwelling shelter - statute
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noun
a law enacted by the legislative branch of a government - succor
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noun
relief, aid, help - warble
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verb
to sing in a trilling manner with many variation: Trill - wont
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adj
accustomed, used