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Refugee
One who flees for safety
Persistant
Go on resolutely in spite of difficulties
Respite
Delay
Premonition
Anticipation of an event without councious reason
Compensation
Something given as an equivalent
Admonition
Cautionary Advice
Dejectedly
Sad
Complacent
Satisfied
Ominous
Threatening
Pervasive
Spread Throughout
Periphery
Perimeter
Lucid
Clear to the mind
Parody
Imitation
Emigrate
To leave one's place of residence to live somewhere else
Affirmation
Something positive
Parallelism
Arrangement of equal ideas in equivalent gramatical structures
Wiles
Sly tricks
Assertions
Statements with no proof
Prodigious
Wonderful
Blasphemous
Showing lack of respect toward god
Adjured
Commanded solemnly
Indignantly
Acting angrily because of unjust treatment
Resolutely
In a determined manner
Perfidious
Tracherous
Venerable
Worthy of respect due to age
Enraptured
Filled with great pleasure
Munificence
Generosity in giving
Ominous
Sinister
Mitigate
To make less severe
Caricature
An exaggerated imitation
Concession
A thing conceded or granted
Carrion
Decaying flesh
Profusely
Bountiful
Courtier
A member of a king's court
Regent
A person appointed to rule when the king is too young to rule himself
Fluctuation
A change
Rank
Smelly
Sustenance
That which sustains life
Accrue
To come as a natural growth
Weal
sound or prosperous state
rebrobate
Scoundrel
Skulks
to move or lurk about in a stealthy manner
Stoked
To stir up
Disposed
Inclined to act in a certain manner
Disconcertingly
In a manner that confuses and disturbs
Homily
Sermon
Commiserate
Sympathize
Deference
Courteous respect
Perfunctorily
In an uninterested manner
Remorse
Bitter regret
Bureaucracy
Govenmental officialism
Idealistic
Characteristic of believing that things should be a certain perfect way
Revitalization
To bring vitality back after a decline
Persecution
Being harassed for race/religion
Degenerated
Sinking below a former condition
Dissilusioned
To take away the ideals and make disappointed
Undulant
Wavelike
Reprisal
Revenge for an injury
Hapless
Unlucky
Imperturbably
In an undisturbed manner
Insidious
Treacherous
Immaculate
Pure
Zealous
Frantically devoted
Cadres
Small groups of dedicated people
Subtly
Quietly
Furtively
Secretly
Surveilance
Watching
Apprehensively
Nervously
Bourgeois
Middle class
Allegations
Accusations
Vagrant
Person who wanders from place to place
Dont' Forget:
I pound millet in a mortar with a pestle
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English 10 World Lit Midterm Vocab
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English 10 World Lit Midterm Vocab
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2012-01-08T00:35:29Z
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