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10th Grade Week 10 Vocabulary Review

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    Lord of the Flies Vocabulary
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  • Weighing heavily on the mind or spirit in a way that causes depression and discomfort
    Oppressive
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  • Feeling or expressing remorse or guilt
    Contrite
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  • A slender, thread-like appendage of a climbing plant that stretches out and twines around any suitable support
    Tendril
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  • Impossible to understand or interpret
    Inscrutable
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  • Having a wish to do evil to others
    Malevolent
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  • A social or religious custom prohibiting or forbidding discussion of a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing
    Taboo
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  • To overflow or overwhelm something
    Whelm
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  • To regard a possibility, fact, or person as being unworthy of consideration because it lacks credibility
    Discount
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  • Bad behavior done openly and unashamedly
    Blatant
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  • Understood or implied without being stated
    Tacit
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  • Waste or debris of any kind
    Detritus
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  • What part of speech is the word taboo? Noun, adjective, or verb
    Noun
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  • What part of speech is the word malevolent? Noun, adjective, or verb
    Adjective
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  • What part of speech is the word whelm? Noun, adjective, or verb
    Verb
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  • What part of speech is the word inscrutable? Noun, adjective, or verb
    Adjective
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  • What part of speech is the word discount? Noun, adjective, or verb
    Verb
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