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ELA 9 Flashcards

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Extenuation

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To make light or less serious

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Portent

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A sign something momentous will happen

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Pretentious

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Attempting to seem greater than actuality (Austintatious)

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Retentive

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Having the ability to remember easily

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Retinue

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Group of advisors accompanying an important person

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Sustenance

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Food or drink used for strength, maintaining in life

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Tenable

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Able to be maintained against attack or objection

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Tenacious

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Keeping a form hold of something, clinging or not relinquishing

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Tenuous

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Very weak or slight

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Tenure

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Conditions which land, job, or building are occupied. Security

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Adduce

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Cite as evidence

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Confound

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Cause suppose or confusion contrary to expectation

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Cryptic

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It is mysterious or obscure or hidden meaning

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Conundrum

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Confusing or difficult problem or question

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Construe

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Interpret in a particular way

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Paradox

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Statement that sounds reasonable but leads to a confusing conclusion that seems senseless. Can be false and true at the same time.

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Patent

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Clear or obvious

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Equivocate

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Use ambiguous language to conceal truth

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Perspicacity

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Quality of having ready insight into things

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Rudimentary

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Involving limited or basic principles

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Commodious

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Roomy or comfortable

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Finite

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Having limits or boundaries

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Gamut

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Complete range or scope

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Incalculable

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To great to be calculated or estimated

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Iota

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Extremely small amount

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Lofty

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Imposing height or pompous

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Magnitude

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Great size or extent of something

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Miniscule

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Extremely small or tiny

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Picayune

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Petty, worthless

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Vestige

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Trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists

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