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1
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VOC

A

to call to speak or voice

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2
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Define advocate

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To speak on behalf of a cause

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3
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Define avocation

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Hobby or calling

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4
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Define invocation

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To call on someone or something for guidance a prayer

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5
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Define provoke

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Speak out against someone or to bug

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6
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Define revoke

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Call back

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7
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Define vocab

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Words for language

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8
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Define vocation

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A calling for a career or occupation

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9
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Find voucher

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A document that serves as evidence of money you’ve spent and can be redeemed

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BENE OR BON

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Good or well

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11
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Define benevolent

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Well-meaning and kindly

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12
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Define bona fide

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Sincere or genuine

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13
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Define Bennison’s

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A blessing

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14
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Define benign

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Gentle kindly or good usually in terms of disease

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15
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Define beneficial

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Resulting in good

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16
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Define Bonnie

A

Beautiful

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17
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MIN

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Small or less

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18
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Define miniature

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Small representation

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19
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Find minor

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Less serious

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20
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Define minority

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Smaller part

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21
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PORT

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To carry or entrance

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22
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Define port

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Entrance for ships

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23
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Define portage

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To carry canoes or supplies across the landmass

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24
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GENS

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People or kind

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25
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Define degenerate

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Somebody who is corrupt immoral or person considered who has lost qualities

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26
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Define indigenous

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Originating or occurring in the same place

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27
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Define progeny

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Descendent of a person animal or plant an offspring

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28
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Define regenerate

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Regrow to replace lost or injured tissue

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29
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VIS OR VID

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To se or to look

30
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Define improvise

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Looking for a way to see if you can do something without proper materials

31
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Define provide

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Look for somebody else’s needs

32
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Define revision

A

Take another look at something

33
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Define visa

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A country has looked at you and says you can come in

34
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Define visor

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It’s something you can see through

35
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Define visionary

A

Looking into the future

36
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SCRIP OR SCRIB

A

To write

37
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Define conscription

A

Written enkistment for state to service the army

38
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Define manuscript

A

Something that is written by hand

39
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Define scrivener

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A clerk who writes

40
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Define subscribe

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A written order of publication

41
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Define transcribe

A

Put something into written form

42
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Define transcript

A

A written version of material

43
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NOM OR NYM

A

name

44
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Define congnoman

A

Personal name

45
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Define misnomer

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Wrong name

46
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Define name sake

A

Person or thing that has the same name as another

47
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Define NOM de plume

A

A pen name

48
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Define nomenclature

A

Choosing of names typically in science

49
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Define pseudonym

A

Pen name

50
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Define renown

A

A well-known name

51
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MITT or MISS

A

To send

52
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Define commissary

A

Sent to keep order

53
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Define intermittent

A

Occurring at random times and is unsteady

54
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Define Missile

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Device that us sent forcibly at a target

55
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Define missive

A

Along official letter that is sent out

56
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Define permission

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To send authorization

57
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Define remittance

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Money sent as a payment for goods or as a gift

58
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Define submissive

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Obedience and ready to obey authority

59
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CHRON OR TEMP

A

Time

60
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Define anachronism

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A thing from a different period of time than that of which it exists

61
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Define chronic

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Of illness is persisting for a long time or always reoccurring

62
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Define Chronicle

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Factual written account of important historical events in order of when it happened

63
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Define chronology

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Order of events when it happened

64
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Define contemporary

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Living or occurring at same time

65
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Define extemporaneous

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Didn’t spend time on it

66
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GEO OR TERR

A

Earth

67
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Define geocentric

A

Having representing earth as a center and is a theory

68
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Define geodesic

A

Shortest possible line between two points on earth

69
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Define internment

A

Putting person in prison or detention

70
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Define terra firma

A

Dryland on earth

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