Vocab Review 7-9
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ACROSS

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Staying power; resilience

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Anger; yellow bile

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Confirmed in a habit; habitual

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Trying or taxing to the point
of exhaustion; severely demanding

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Not pious; lacking in
reverence or proper respect

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An inclination or
predisposition toward something

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To cause to enter drop by
drop; to impart gradually

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An ancestor in the direct
line; forerunner

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Simultaneous contradictory
attitudes or feelings

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To deprive of capacity or
natural power; disable

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To inspire with a foolish or
extravagant love or admiration; foolishly in love

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To reduce (as a dead body) to
ashes by burning

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Tending to recover from or
adjust easily to misfortune or change

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Great size or extent;
greatness

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To destroy the integrity or
functioning of; to take to pieces

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The introduction of something
new

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Having the quality of glue;
sticky; gummy

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Plant fibers used in rope

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A lecture or discourse on or
of a moral theme

DOWN

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Following no clear principle
or law; willful; unpredictable

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A polygon of eight angles and
eight sides

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An examination to determine
the cause of death

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Tax imposed by a government on
imported or, in some countries, exported goods; scale of charges

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A servile dependent, follower,
or underling; faithful follower

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Unfaithfulness to a moral
obligation; lack of faithfulness

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A regulation enjoining the
withdrawal of usually specified persons from the streets, or the
closing of business establishments or places of assembly at a stated
hour

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Marked by moderation; neither
very hot nor very cold

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Serving to expound, set forth,
or explain

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Remorse; anxiety arising from
awareness of guilt

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Extremely excited; suffering
from nervous strain; too elaborate

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Someone who roams about and
raids in search of plunder; attacker

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Able to read and write;
educated

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First appearance

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Not to be avoided or evaded;
absolutely necessary; used for commands (grammar)

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Able to use both hands with
equal ease

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To explain by stating in
careful and often elaborate detail

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To insert between other things
or parts, especially in speaking or writing

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A job that requires little or
no work and that usually provides a good income

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Moving from topic to topic
without order; rambling

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Inclined to be silent or
uncommunicative in speech

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A state of perplexity or doubt

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Lacking usual or normal mental
clarity or coherence; not governed by or according to reason; not
rational

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To deprive of the power of
reproducing; to free from living microorganisms

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Of, relating to, befitting, or
suggestive of an empire or an emperor; a small pointed beard growing
below the lower lip; of superior or unusual size or excellence;
majestic

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Not knowing; unaware; not
intended

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Completely obvious,
conspicuous, or obtrusive especially in a crass or offensive manner

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To contradict or oppose by
formal legal argument, plea, or countervailing proof

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Comprehend; understand
thoroughly; a unit of length equal to six feet used especially for
measuring the depth of water

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The language peculiar to a
people or to a district, community, or class; phrase not meant
literally

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