AP Lit #5 10-12-10
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jademarie0228 on October 17, 2010
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Luxembourgish | English |
|---|---|
| Peripeteia | reversal of fortune |
| Peerless | having no equal; incomparable |
| Flout | to ridicule; to show contempt for |
| Harbinger | things that precede, forecast; a premonition |
| Purveyor | someone who supplies provisions |
| Quell | suppress |
| Prate | To talk excessively; To babble |
| Lechery | unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity |
| Chide | to scold |
| Prattle | idle or foolish and irrelevant talk |
| Posterity | all of a person's offspring, descendants; all future generations |
| Augury | an omen or prophecy |
| Rue | to feel sorrow or regret |
| Deftly | quickly and skillfully |
| Profundity | intellectual depth |
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