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Word List 12: Advanced Vocabulary Development
Word List 12: Advanced Vocabulary Development
Word List 12: Advanced Vocabulary Development
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Word list 12
Group 1
Notes
Abysmal
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Approbation
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Bent (n)
inclination; aptitude
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Cadge
get by begging
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Debacle
disaster
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Extemporize
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Incumbents
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Lambaste
attack verbally
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Noisome
disgusting
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Pastiche
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Group 2
Notes
Arboreal
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Centrifuge
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Cloistered
isolated
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Disabuse
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Engendering
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Intemperate
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Lugubrious
sad; gloomy
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Nonplussed
confused
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Pedagogy
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Satiate
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Group 3
Notes
Artless
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Comeliness
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Doff
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Don
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Erudition
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Plaintive
sad; mournful
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Suborn
bribe
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Tendentious
dogmatic; biased
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Tortuous
indirect; winding
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Verbiage
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Group 4
Notes
Atonement
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Complaisance
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Daguerreotype
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Fawn
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Gregariousness
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Nascent
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Paean
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Reproof
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Scurvy
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Tutelary
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Group 5
Notes
Abscission
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Contentious
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Debilitating
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Foible
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Importune
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Pertain
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Slew
glut; excess
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Toady
sycophant; flatterer
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Torrid
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Veracious
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Group 6
Notes
Asperity
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Blowhard
boastful person
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Disingenuous
crafty
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Evanescent
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Intangible
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Labile
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Malapropism
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Posture (v)
to put on an act
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Proximate
immediate; nearest
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Pugnacious
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Group 7
Notes
Foreshadowed
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Gaucherie
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Heterodox
unorthodox
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Inscrutability
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Limerick
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Mannered
stylized; pretentious
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Pluck (n)
courage
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Sedulous
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Syllogism
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Vicissitude
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Group 8
Notes
Acolyte
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Admonitory
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Caprices
whimsies; fancies
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Cornucopia
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Deferential
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Intractability
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Luminary
eminent person
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Minion
underling; servant
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Undergird
support; strengthen
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Vitiate
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Group 9
Notes
Coterie
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Denigrate
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Empirical
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Gainsay
contradict
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Hyperbole
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Modest
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Prolixity
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Rebus
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Sere
withered; old
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Vulpine
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Group 10
Notes
Corroborate
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Exacerbated
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Exact (v)
to demand; extort
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Faddish
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Hapless
unlucky
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Misconstrue
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Perennial
long-lasting
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Rent
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Shard
fragment of pottery
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Xenophobe
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