Vocabulary #1 Flashcards

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Brace

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Two of a kind; pair; couple

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Bicentennial

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200th Anniversary

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Centenarian

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One who is 100 or older

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Decimate

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Destroy ten or more percent, or a large portion

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Dichotomy

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Division in two; split

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Millennium

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Period of 1,000 years

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Plurality

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Number of votes by which a winning candidate exceeds that of a runner up

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Quadrennial

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Occurring or being done very four years

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Score

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Group of twenty; twenty

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Tithe

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One tenth of something contributed to support a religious establishment

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Treble

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Multiply by three; triple

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Triumvirate

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Ruling body of three

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