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Crossroads Mid-Year Vocab
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12th Grade
12/12/2010
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Prognostication
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forecast or prediction
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Primordial
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giving origin to something
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androgyny
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being both male and female
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malinger
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to fake illness to avoid work
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coda
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a concluding part or section
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audacity
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fearless; daring
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buccaneer
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a pirate
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diaphanous
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very sheer and light; transparent
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ostentatious
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pretentious
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philanthropic
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organized to give humanitarian or charitable assistance
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cipher
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something of no value or importance; coded message
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circuitous
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roundabout; not direct
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sagacious
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sage, wise, intelligent, clever
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intrepedity
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resolutely fearless; dauntless
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pestilential
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annoyingly, troublesome, harmful
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redress
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the setting of right from something that is wrong
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antipathy
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a natural, basic, or habitual repugnance
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capricious
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erratic
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esoteric
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understood by the select few that have knowledge or interest
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ferment
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unrest; excitement; commotion
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harbinger
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a person who goes ahead and makes known an approach
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approbation
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approval
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callow
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immature
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expedient
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appropiate for circumstances
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rend
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to tear apart or split violently
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zealot
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committed person
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litany
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ceremonial prayer
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archetype
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original pattern or model or prototype
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staccato
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shortened or detached when played or sung
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strident
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harsh sound; creaking
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allay
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to put fear, suspicion, doubt to rest
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furlong
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unit of distance equal to 220 yards
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ignoble
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low character or quality
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inveterate
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settled or confirmed in a habit, feeling, practice
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stanch
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to stop the flow of blood
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auspicious
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promising success; favorable
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extirpate
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to remove or destroy
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impertinent
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irrelevant
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surfeit
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excess in amount; extra
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vouchsafe
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to grant or give a favor
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revere
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to regard with respect
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voluble
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marked by a steady flow of speech; fluent
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sordid
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filthy, dirty; foul
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apostate
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a person who forsakes his religion
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