Pre-AP English 2A #401-450
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- spectral
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adj
of, relating to, or suggesting a specter; Ghostly - inert
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adj
lacking the power to move; Sluggish - fanatic
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noun
one who is marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intesnse uncritical devotion - predilection
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noun
a established preference for something - maraud
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verb
to roam about and riad in search of plunder; Raid, Pillage - homage
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noun
expression of high regard; Respect - defile
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verb
to make unclean or impure - ingratiating
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adj
capable of winning favor: Pleasing - ideology
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noun
visionary theorizing; a systematic body of concepts especially about human life or culture - perpetuate
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verb
to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely - differentiation
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noun
the act or prcess of differentiating - insoluble
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not soluble - paradox
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noun
a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true - injuction
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a writ granted by a court of equity whereby one is requred to do or to refrain from doing a specified act: Order - hearty
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adj
giving unqualified support; Vigorous, vehement - dissemble
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verb
to hind under a false appearance; Simulate - propriety
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noun
the quality or state of being proper; the customs and manners of polite society - conjure
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verb
to summon a devil or spirit by invocation or incantation - faction
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noun
a party or a group that is often contentious or self-seeking: Clique - deference
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noun
respect and esteem due a superior or an elder - providence
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noun
divine guidance or care - motif
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noun
a usually recurring salient thematic elements: esp a dominant idea or ecntral theme - smirch
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verb
to make dirty, stainted, or discolored - contention
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noun
a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument - clamor
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noun
noisy shouting - intimate
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verb
to make known especially publicly or formally or delicately and indirectly - formidable
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adj
causing fear, dread, or apprehension - subservient
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adj
useful in an inferior capacity - naive
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adj
marked by unaffected simplicity; Primitive - partisan
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noun
a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause or person - hyporcite
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noun
a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion - calumny
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noun
misrepresentation intended to blacken anothers reputation - titillate
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verb
to excite pleasurably; tickle - wintry
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or, relating to, or characterstics of winter - pretense
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noun
a claim made or implied; a pretense act or assertion - unnerved
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to deprive of courage, strength, or steadiness - prodigious
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adj
exciting amazment or wonder, extraordinary in bulk - canny
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shrewd, clever - defer
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verb
put off, delay - fathom
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verb
to penetrate and come to understand - anarchy
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noun
absence of government - ascertain
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verb
to make certain - scrutiny
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noun
examination; a searching study, inquiry, or inspection - diabolism
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noun
dealing with or possession by the devil - bemuse
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verb
to make confused: bewilder - cosmology
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noun
a theory or doctrine describing hte natural order of the universe - diametrically opposed
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adj
having the quality of being stark and complete opposites - inculcate
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verb
to teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions - entrall
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verb
to hold spellbound: Charm - abrogate
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verb
to abolish by authoritative action; Nullify