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9th Grade Words for Dehcho Divisional Education Council |
absorption
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n. process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion; state of mental concentration |
altercation
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n. noisy quarrel; contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy |
apparatus
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n. a group of parts that work together to perform given function; appliance or device for particular purpose |
austerity
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n. severe and rigid economy; severe or rigorous simplicity; absence of adornment or luxury |
cocoon
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n. silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs |
conscientious
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a. wishing to do what is right, especially to do one's work or duty well and thoroughly; diligent; responsible; reliable |
dissociate
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v. to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms |
dormitory
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n. a college or university building for student living; a large bedroom where several people sleep |
hypocrisy
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n. practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold; falseness; expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction |
incandescent
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a. strikingly bright; shining with intense heat; emitting light as result of being heated |
irrelevant
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a. not related to what is being discussed or considered and therefore not important; not applicable; having no connection with |
lustrous
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a. giving out or shedding light, as sun or fire; reflecting light; having brilliant surface |
maintenance
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n. preservation; support; continuance; court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another |
martyr
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n. one who makes great sacrifices or suffers to further belief or principle; one who endures great suffering |
metamorphosis
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n. marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function; major transformation |
monotony
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n. uniformity or lack of variation; continual increase, or continual decrease; tedium as a result of repetition |
peril
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n. danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction |
potpourri
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n. a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources |
reservoir
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n. tank used for collecting and storing a liquid; lake used to store water for community use |
retaliate
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v. do something harmful or negative to get revenge for some harm; fight back or respond in kind to an injury or affront |
rococo
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n. fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century |
scavenger
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n. animal that eats other decaying organic matter; someone who collects things that have been discarded by others |
soliloquy
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n. talking to oneself; act of a character speaking to himself so as to reveal his thoughts to audience |
supersede
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v. be placed in or take the room of; replace; make obsolete; make void or useless by superior power |
tantalize
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v. tease; torture with disappointment; bait someone by showing something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied |
transmutation
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n. (physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment) |