Grade 9 list
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Existing in or persisting from
the beginning

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A place where bees are kept

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Lightly fanciful

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Soul; personality

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A secret scheme

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One of two or more individuals
having one common parent

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To refrain deliberately and
often with an effort of self-denial

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Expression of high regard

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Lacking normal clarity or
intelligibility in speech or thought

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Marked by or concerned about
precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions

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To gather into storage

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A turning to someone or
something for help or protection

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To charge with a fault or
offense

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Expressing or containing a
farewell

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A silly annoying person

44

To subject to partial
sterilization of a substance

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An admirer or lover of the
arts

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The phraseology peculiar to a
religious class or sect

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Of or relating to actors,
acting, or the theater

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Relating to matters of fact or
practical affairs

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An outrageous, improper,
vicious, or immoral

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A standard on which a judgment
or decision may be based

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Noisy partying or merrymaking

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Having a slovenly or
uncared-for appearance

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The quality or state of being
boring

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To throw into confusion

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A sharp-pointed and commonly
2-edged surgical instrument

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Authority or power to act for
another

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Austere in appearance, manner,
or attitude

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To supersede (another)
especially by force or treachery

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To invoke evil on : curse

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An act or process tending to
hamper or hurt through deliberate subversion

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Prefix meaning “a new form”

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A narrow opening or crack of
considerable length

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A potion credited with magical
power

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Ample to satisfy and nourish

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Not foreseeing and providing
for the future

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A usually temporary encampment
under little or no shelter

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To turn inward or in upon
itself

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Belonging by nature or habit

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Expressive of appreciation or
esteem

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The districts around a city

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A volume forming part of a
larger work

35

Mediator; go-between

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Relating to or characteristic
of a whole group or

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One that bears the blame for
others

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Something that interferes with
proper articulation of speech

40

Intense and usually openly
displayed anger

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A storehouse for threshed
grain

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Binding in law or conscience

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A party or group (as within a
government) that is often self-seeking

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To make less by or as if by
cutting off or away some part

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