ELA 10 VOCAB

Don C.
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  1. antebellum
    belonging to a period before a war
  2. deciduous
    shedding foliage at the end of the growing season
  3. deleterious
    harmful to living things
  4. enervate
    weaken physically, mentally, or morally
  5. fiduciary
    relating to or of the nature of a legal trust
  6. gamete
    a mature sexual reproductive cell
  7. lugubrious
    excessively mournful
  8. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  9. subjugate
    make subservient; force to submit or subdue
  10. taxonomy
    a classification of organisms based on similarities
  11. tectonic
    pertaining to the structure or movement of the earth's crust
  12. kowtow
    bend the knees and bow in a servile manner
  13. filibuster
    a tactic for delaying legislation by making long speeches
  14. wrought
    shaped to fit by altering the contours of a pliable mass
Created on Wed Nov 28 13:11:49 EST 2012 (updated Thu Dec 06 10:21:02 EST 2012)

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