Helton Honors Short Story Vocabulary
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| absconded | to run off and hide
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| explicit | to be very exact
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| fetter | to chain or bind
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| impunity | free from all charges
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| niche | an interior opening in a passageway
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| precluded | to prevent beforehand
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| retribution | revenge or payback
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| condolences | sympathy
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| precipitous | steep; sheer drop
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| languor | a state of laziness
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| palpable | able to be touched
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| scruples | morals and values
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| careen | speed in a curve or straight path
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| exotic | outside of the normal
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| heresy | a philosophy against the accepted beliefs
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| precariously | very unstable
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| unredressed | not set right
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| catacombs | underground passages
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| impose | to interrupt
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| condone | to excuse or approve
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| zealous | overly devoted to an interest
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| dank | dark and dreary
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| lacerated | torn or ripped apart
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| opaque | not able to let light in
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| sallow | very pale or sickly in color
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| armada | a fleet of something
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| loll | to hang out in a lazy manner
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| prim | proper and sophisticated
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| sullen | sad and depressed
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| entrails | internal organs
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