Period 6

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Period 6

• Vocabulary Set 2

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• ecocide (e'ko-sid', ek'o-) noun (a name)?
• Heedless or deliberate destruction of the natural
  environment, as by pollutants or an act of war.
• jetsam (jet's?m) noun (a name for stuff)?
• Cargo or equipment thrown overboard to lighten a
  ship in distress.
• Discarded cargo or equipment found washed ashore.
  
• Discarded odds and ends.
• roan (ron) adjective (a color) OR noun (a name)?
• adjective--(chiefly of horses) of the color
  sorrel, chestnut, or bay, sprinkled with gray or
  white.
• nouna horse of the roan color, or a soft,
  flexible sheepskin leather used in book binding
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• psittacosis (sit'?-ko'sis) noun (a disease)?
• An infectious disease of parrots and related
  birds that can be spread to humans, in whom it
  produces high fever, severe headache, and
  symptoms similar to pneumonia.
• Also called parrot fever.
• yaw (yô) verb (an action)?
• to deviate (change from the correct course)
  temporarily from a straight course, as a ship.
• oligarchy (ol'i-gär'ke, o'li-) noun (a type of
  government)?
• A system of government in which all power is held
  by a small group.
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• omnifarious (om'ni-fâr'e-?s) adjective
  (describes something)?
• of all forms, varieties, or kinds
• diadem (di'?-dem', -d?m) noun (a thing)?
• A crown worn as a sign of royalty.
• Royal power or dignity.
• lamella (l?-mel'?) collective noun (name for
  things)?
• A thin scale, plate, or layer of bone or tissue,
  as in the gills of a bivalve mollusk or around
  the minute vascular canals in bone.

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