List #7: Pre-AP
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Created by:
Mr_Mattson on August 23, 2011
Subjects:
language arts vocabulary 8th grade
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 unconscionable | (adj.) not controlled by conscience; unscrupulous |
| vapid | (adj.) without liveliness; dull; spiritless |
| wanton | (adj.) malicious; unjustifiable; unprovoked; egregious |
| abdicate | (v.) to step down from a position of power or responsibility |
| bane | (n.) poison; torment; cause of harm |
| capitalism | (n.) an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, esp. as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth. |
| debacle | (n.) a violent breakdown; sudden overthrow; overwhelming defeat |
| ebullient | (adj.) boiling; bubbling with excitement; exuberant (ebullience) |
| facile | (adj.) fluent; skillful in a superficial way; easy |
| genre | (n.) a type or category, especially of art or writing |
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