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	PA Words

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11-15-2007 9:40 AM

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11-15-2007 2:23 PM

Hawkeye_84

Here are some others that might cross your vocabulary

contumacious - stubborn
exigency - a pressing or urgent situation
neophyte - a recent convert
obsequious - compliance
perfidious - treachery
prevarification - evade the truth

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