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Title: VOCABULARY 4


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VOCABULARY 4
  • CONDESCENDINGLY DISDAINFULLY, PATRONIZINGLY
  • ARBITRARY NOT BOUND, BY RULES DISCRETIONARY
  • FATUITY SILLINESS, FOOLISHNESS
  • ZOOLOGY STUDY OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF ANIMALS
  • INFRINGEMENT TRANSGRESSION, VIOLATION OF ONES
    RIGHT
  • GEOLOGYSTUDY OF THE SCIENCE OF THE EARTHS
    CRUST, THE ROCKS, THEIR STRATA,ETC.

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Vocabulary 3
  • impassioned deeply moved showing deep feeling
  • Biased slanted one sided inclination
  • Fervent hot, glowing, ardent, intense
  • Crescendo increase of loudness
  • Zeal fervor, keenness
  • Animosity bitter hostility active hatred

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Vocabulary 3
  • Firmament the vault or expanse of the heavens
    the sky
  • subdue to quiet or bring under control by
    physical force or persuasion
  • Writhe to wrist, as in pain, struggle, or
    embarrassment

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VOCABULARY 4
  • ARCHAEOLOGY STUDY OF ANCIENT TIMES FROM REMAINS
    OF ART, IMPLEMENTS, TOOLS, ETC
  • ANTHROPOLOGIST ONE WHO CONDUCTS A SCIENTIFIC
    STUDY OF THE HUMAN RACE
  • INCONTROVERTIBLECERTAINNOT SUBJECT TO DISPUTE
    OR DEBATE, ESPECIALLY IN PRESS OF SOME DURATION
  • UNORTHODOX NOT HOLDING ACCEPTED VIEWS OR
    DOCTRINE UNCONVENTIONAL

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vocabulary 1
  • bailiff (noun) a court attendant entrusted with
    duties such as the maintenance of order in a
    courtroom during a trial
  • Frond (noun) the leaf of a fern
  • Patriarch (noun) a man who rules a family,
    clan, or tribe
  • Vested (adjective) settled, fixed, or absolute
  • Agnostic (noun) one who believes that it is
    impossible to know whether there is a god

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Vocabulary 1
  • Extradite (verb) to give up or deliver (a
    fugitive for example) to the legal jurisdiction
    of another government or authority
  • Unctuously (adjective) exaggerated, or
    insincere earnestness
  • Indeterminate (adjective) not leading up to a
    definite result or ending
  • Precepts (noun) an authorized direction or order

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Vocabulary 1
  • Heretic (noun) a person who holds controversial
    opinions, especially one who publicly dissents
    from the officially accepted dogma of the roman
    catholic church
  • Halyards (noun) a rope used to raise or lower a
    sail, flag, or yard
  • Evolutionist (noun) advocacy of or belief in
    biological evolution
  • Contemptuously (adverb) scornful

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Vocabulary 1
  • Dogma (noun) a principle or belief
  • Cynical (adjective) negative or pessimistic
  • Caricatured (verb) represented or imitated in an
    exaggerated, distorted manner
  • Infidel (noun) one who has no religious beliefs
  • Suffrage (noun) a vote cast in deciding a
    disputed question or in electing a person to
    office

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Vocabulary 1
  • Connotations (noun) the set of associations
    implied by a word in addition to its literal
    meaning
  • Incredulity (noun) doubt about the truth of
    something
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