12th Grade Vocabulary List

12th Grade Vocabulary List 1
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1. Assail
2. Assay
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Choleric
Churlishness
Despondent
Despotism
Esoteric
Etymology
Gravity
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Gregarious
Intemperate
Intercession
Martinet
Masochist
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15. Paradigm
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16. Paradox
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17. Prognosticate
18. Proletarian
19. Score (n)
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20. Scotch (v)
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DEFINITION & NOTES

-to attack violently with blows or words
-examination and determination as to characteristics
-try, attempt; or to judge the worth of
-easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger
-marked by a lack of civility or graciousness; difficult to work with
-feeling or showing extreme discouragement or depression
-a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power
-requiring or exhibiting knowledge that is restricted to a small group
-the history of linguistic form
-characterized by sobriety or seriousness
-a physical force of attraction caused by mass
-tending to associate with others of ones kind
-lacking moderation or sobriety
-prayer or entreaty in favor of another
-a person who stresses a rigid adherence to the details of forms and methods
-a person possessing a pathology whereby they derive pleasure from physical pain, often
in sexual contexts
-an outstandingly clear or typical example or archetype
-a philosophical or theoretical framework
-a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is
perhaps true
-to foretell from signs or symptoms
-a member of the laboring class
-a group of 20 things
-success in acquisition
-an indicating mark
-the act of making a mark
-to put an end to; archaic: wound, cut

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1. Assiduous
2. Assimilate
3. Circuitous
4. Circumlocution
5. Destitution
6. Eugenic
7. Eulogy
8. Gritty
9. Grovel
10. Interim
11. Interlocutor
12. Matinee
13. Matriarchy
14. Paragon
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Paranoia
Proliferate
Prominent
Scrupulous
Scrutinize
Terse
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DEFINITION & NOTES

-showing careful, persistent effort
-to absorb into the system
-lengthy because very indirect
-the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea
-the state of being in such extreme want as threatens life unless relieved
-relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring
-a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased
-having strong qualities of tough uncompromising realism; courageously persistent
-to abase oneself often with ones face to the ground
-an intervening time
-done, made, appointed, or occurring for an intervening time
-one who takes part in dialogue or conversation
-a performance or public event held in the daytime especially the afternoon
-a system of social organization in which descent and inheritance are traced through the
female line
-a model of excellence or perfection
-to compare with or put in rivalry
-a tendency toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others
-to grow by rapid production
-readily noticeable or widely known
-having strict regard for what is right or proper
-to examine closely and minutely
-using few words

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1. Assuage
2. Circumspect
3. Clamor
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Detrude
Deviate
Euphemism
Euphony
Guffaw
Guile
Interloper
Intermittent
Legerdemain
Maudlin
Maverick
Parapet
Propensity
Proprietary
18. Scurrilous
19. Scurvy
20. Stickler
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DEFINITION & NOTES

-to lessen the intensity
-careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences
-a loud continuous noise
-to utter or proclaim insistently and noisily
-to force down or thrust away or out
-to stray from an established course or norm
-the substitution of an inoffensive expression for one that may offend
-pleasing or sweet sound
-a loud or boisterous burst of laughter
-deceitful cunning
-one that intrudes in a place or sphere of activity
-coming and going at intervals
-a display of skill or adroitness
-weakly and effusively sentimental
-an independent individual who does not go along with the group
-a wall, rampart, or elevation of earth or stone; a low wall or railing
-an often intense natural inclination or preference
-one that possesses, owns or holds exclusive rights to something; something that is used
or marketed under exclusive legal right of the inventor or maker
-using or given to coarse language; vulgar and evil
-arousing disgust or scorn
-one who insists on exactness or completeness; something that baffles or puzzles

WORD
1. Asylum
2. Atavism
3. Clandestine
4. Clemency
5. Devour
6. Evacuate
7. Guise
8. Gullibility
9. Intractability
10. Mawkish
11. Meager
12. Penurious
13. Prosaic
14. Protocol
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15. Protuberant
16. Scandal
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Scuttle
Seance
Testiness
Theogony
DEFINITION & NOTES

-a place of retreat and security
-recurrence of or reversion to a past style, manner, outlook, approach, or activity
-marked by or conducted with secrecy
-a disposition to be merciful or to moderate the severity of punishment due
-to eat up greedily or ravenously
-to remove the contents of; to remove from a military zone or dangerous area
-a form or style of dress; external appearance
-easily duped or cheated
-not easily governed, manipulated, relieved, or cured
-having an insipid often unpleasant taste; sickly or puerilely sentimental
-lacking desirable qualities; deficient in quality or quantity
-given to or marked by extreme stinting frugality
-dull, unimaginative; everyday, ordinary
-an original draft or record of a document or transaction
-a code prescribing strict adherence to correct etiquette and precedence
-thrusting out from a surrounding or adjacent surface often as a rounded mass
-loss of or damage to reputation caused by actual or apparent violation of morality or
propriety
-indignation, chagrin, or bewilderment brought about by a flagrant violation of morality,
propriety, or religious opinion
-to deliberately sink or attempt to sink a ship or boat
-a spiritualist meeting to receive spirit communications
-marked by impatience or ill humor
-an account of the origin and descent of the gods

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1. Atonement
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Atrophy
Clich
Clientele
Dexterity
Diacritical
Effulge
Gumption
Habiliments
Intransigent
Intrepid
Meander
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Melodrama
Parochial
Parody
Protuberate
Sedulity
Sedulous
Vacillate
Vacuous
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DEFINITION & NOTES

-the reconciliation of God and humankind through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ
-reparation for an offense or injury
-a wasting away or progressive decline
-something that has become overly familiar or commonplace
-a body of clients
-skill or quickness in mental or physical activity
-capable of distinguishing
-to shine forth, to radiate
-enterprise, initiative
-characteristic apparatus or dress of an occupation or occasion
-characterized by refusal to compromise or abandon an extreme position or attitude
-characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance
-a winding path or course
-to wander aimlessly or casually without urgent destination
-characterized by extravagant action and emotion, overdramatic
-confined or restricted as if within the borders of a parish; limited in range or scope
-a feeble or ridiculous imitation
-to swell or bulge
-activity accomplished with careful perseverance
-diligent in application or pursuit
-to waver in mind, will, or feeling
-empty; marked by a lack of ideas or intelligence

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1. Attenuate
2. Auburn
3. Audacious
4. Cloistered
5. Coalescence
6. Diaphanous
7. Evoke
8. Hack
9. Halcyon
10. Intromit
11. Mendacious
12. Mercurial
13. Parry
14. Parsimonious
15. Provincial
16. Seemly
17. Sequester
18. Thwart
19. Vagary
20. Wistful
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DEFINITION & NOTES

-reduced in thickness, density, or force
-a reddish-brown color
-recklessly bold
-providing shelter from contact with the outside world
-a union of diverse entities into one body, form, or group
-characterized by extreme delicacy of form
-to call forth or up
-a writer who produces dull, unoriginal work
-denoting a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful
-to send or put in
-characterized by deception
-characterized by rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood
-to evade or turn aside something
-frugal but often to the point of stinginess
-limited in outlook; lacking the polish of urban society
-suited to the occasion, purpose, or person
-to set apart
-to oppose successfully
-an erratic or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion
-full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy

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1. Acolyte
2. Aura
3. Coda
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Commandeer
Dike
Dilemma
Exact (v)
Existentialism
Hallow
Hamper
Inundate
Inure
Meretricious
Parsimony
Prune
Psychosis
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Serendipity
Serration
Vapid
Vortex
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DEFINITION & NOTES

-one who attends or assists
-a distinctive atmosphere surrounding a given source
-something that serves to round out, conclude, or summarize and usually has its own
interest, often concludes a musical section or a literary or dramatic work
-to take arbitrary or forcible possession of
-an artificial watercourse; a raised causeway
-a usually undesirable or unpleasant choice
-to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain
-a form of thought that stresses existence or experience over essence or meaning
-to make holy or set apart for holy use
-to interfere with the operation of
-to cover with a flood; overwhelm
-to accustom to accept something undesirable
-tawdrily and falsely attractive; superficially significant
-the quality of being careful with money or resources; stingy
-to remove as superfluous
-fundamental derangement of the mind often characterized by disconnection from
reality
-finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for
-a formation resembling the toothed edge of a saw
-lacking liveliness, briskness, or force
-something that resembles a whirlpool

WORD
1. Adulatory
2. Bedlam
3. Bolster
4. Contusion
5. Debonair
6. Flagrant
7. Garrulous
8. Innate
9. Pedagogy
10. Speckled
11. Stoic
12. Taciturn
13. Totter
14. Ultimatum
15. Undergird
16. Upshot
17. Venturing
18. Vilification
19. Numinous
20. Volubility
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DEFINITION & NOTES

-excessive or slavish admiration or flattery
-a place, scene, or state of uproar and confusion
-to support or give a boost to
-injury to tissue without laceration
-suave, urbane; lighthearted, nonchalant
-conspicuously offensive
-given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity; pointlessly or annoyingly talkative
-belonging to the essential nature of something
-the art, science, or profession of teaching
-to be marked with small spots or erratically
-one apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain
-temperamentally disinclined to talk
-to become unstable; to move unsteadily
-a final proposition, condition, or demand
-to form the basis or foundation of
-the final result; outcome
-to undertake the risks and dangers of; to offer at the risk of rebuff, rejection, or censure
-the act of uttering slanderous and abusive standards against
-appealing to higher emotions or containing a sense of a mystical divine presence
-characterized by ready or rapid speech

WORD
1. Autarchy
2. Condescend
3. Detriment
4. Emporium
5. Extrude
6. Glib
7. Gloze
8. Hortatory
9. Neologism
10. Ontology
11. Skirmish
12. Suppliant
13. Tangible
14. Triad
15. Unprecedented
16. Vendition
17. Waffle
18. Weltanschauung
19. Zealot
20. Zenith
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DEFINITION & NOTES

-absolute sovereignty
-to descend to a less formal or dignified level; to assume an air of superiority
-a cause of injury or damage
-a place of trade
-to force, press, or push out
-informal or lacking depth and substance
-gloss
-exhortatory
-a new word, usage, or expression
-a branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature and relations of being
-a minor dispute or contest
-one who asks humbly and earnestly
-capable of being perceived especially by the sense of touch
-a union or group of three
-having no earlier occurrence of something similar
-the act of selling goods for a living
-to vacillate or waver in mind, will, or feeling
-a comprehensive conception of the world especially from a specific standpoint
-a fanatical person
-the highest point reached

WORD
1. Accentuate
2. Anarchy
3. Blas
4. Boorish
5. Cede v
6. Crustaceous
7. Doublet
8. Fianc
9. Linchpin
10. Livid
11. Mendicant
12. Parasite
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Rapacious
Skiff
Solicit
Sortie
Stanza
Trepidation
Visceral
Wry
DEFINITION & NOTES

-accent, emphasize
-absence or denial of any authority or established order
-apathetic to pleasure or excitement as a result of excessive indulgence
-resembling or befitting a boor (as in crude insensitivity)
-to yield or grant typically by treaty
-of, relating to, having, or forming a crust or shell
-a mans close-fitting jacket worn especially during the Renaissance
-a man or woman engaged to be married
-one that serves to hold together parts that function as a unit
-discolored by bruises; very angry
-beggar
-something in dependence on something else for existence or support without making a
useful return
-excessively grasping or covetous
-any of various small boats
-to try to obtain by usually urgent requests or pleas
-a sudden issuing of troops from a defensive position
-a division of a poem
-a nervous feeling of uncertain agitation
-dealing with crude or elemental emotions
-to pull out of proper shape

WORD
1. Bibliophile
2. Germinal
3. Impasse
4. Implicate
5. Integrity
6. Miasma
7. Sclerotic
8. Smorgasbord
9. Stagnant
10. Stentorian
11. Subliminal
12. Suborn
13. Surreptitious
14. Tenuous
15. Trestle
16. Vagrant
17. Vicissitude
18. Volition
19. Vulpine
20. Zeal
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DEFINITION & NOTES

-a lover of books
-being in the earliest stage of development
-a predicament affording no obvious escape
-to involve in something
-firm adherence to a code of moral or artistic values
-a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease
-being or relating to the outer coat on the eye
-a luncheon or supper buffet offering a variety of foods
-not flowing, advancing, or developing
-extremely loud
-existing below the threshold of consciousness
-to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing
-doing something secretly
-having little substance or strength
-a braced frame serving as a support
-one who has no established residence and wanders idly
-the quality of being changeable
-the power of choosing or determining
-foxy, crafty
-eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something

WORD
1. Conduit n.
2. Deference
3. Discursive
4. Dissipate
5. Draconian
6. Dragoon
7. Engender
8. Gossamer
9. Homogeneous
10. Importune
11. Laurel
12. Philology
13. Quell
14. Subtle
15. Succinct
16. Sui generis
17. Tactile
18. Truculent
19. Ubiquity
20. Wizened
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DEFINITION & NOTES

-a natural or artificial channel through which something is conveyed
-respect due a superior or elder
-moving from topic to topic without order
-to break up and drive off; to spend or use wastefully
-laws that are especially harsh
-European military personnel often heavily armed
-to cause to exist or develop
-something light, delicate, or insubstantial
-of the same or a similar kind
-to press or urge with troublesome persistence
-may refer to a species of tree but typically refers to a token of achievement
-the study of human speech
-to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission
-indirect, elusive, or skillful
-marked by compact expression
-constituting a class alone
-perceptible by touch
-scathingly harsh; aggressively self-assertive
-presence in many places simultaneously
-dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of age or failing vitality

WORD
1. Abut
2. Amatory
3. Bestial
4. Canard
5. Caprice
6. Locate
7. Marshal
8. Propagate
9. Radix
10. Sophomoric
11. Sparse
12. Stupefying
13. Supposition
14. Tamp
15. Tedium
16. Tirade
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Veracity
Viands
Vital
Wispy
DEFINITION & NOTES

-to border on
-of, relating to, or expressing sexual love
-relating to beasts; marked by base or inhuman instincts or desires
-a groundless rumor or belief
-a disposition to do things impulsively
-to determine the place or limits of
-to place in proper or effective position
-to cause to spread out and affect a greater number or greater area
-the primary source
-conceited an overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature
-of few and scattered elements
-to make groggy or insensible
-an uncertain belief
-to drive in or down by a succession of light or medium blows
-the quality or state of being tiresome
-a protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative, or harshly censorious
language
-devotion to truth
-an item of food
-characteristic of living beings; of the utmost importance
-something frail, slight, or fleeting

WORD
1. Arbitrary
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Ethereal
Feral
Furtive
Listless
Pedestrian
Pith
Profligate
Raconteur
Refract
Supine
Surly
Temper
Touting
Ubiquitous
Understate
Utopian
Veracious
Whimsical
DEFINITION & NOTES

-existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and
unreasonable act of will
-an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances
of different densities
-lacking material substance; having unusual delicacy
-not domesticated or cultivated
-done by stealth
-characterized by lack of interest or energy
-commonplace; performed on foot
-the essential part or core
-wildly extravagant
-a person who excels in telling anecdotes
-to alter by viewing or by going through a medium
-lying on the back or with face upward
-threatening in appearance; having an irritable or sullen mood
-to dilute or qualify by adding something else
-to make much of
-existing everywhere at the same time
-to state or present with restraint for effect
-impossibly ideal
-truthful, honest
-subject to erratic behavior or unpredictable change

WORD
1. Preternatural
2. Cogitate
3. Colleague
4. Feign
5. Illicit
6. Incoherence
7. Inimical
8. Lutarious
9. Ordain
10. Plight
11. Proximate
12. Servile
13. Shard
14. Strident
15. Tractable
16. Tranquil
17. Tumult
18. Variegate
19. Veneer
20. Waive
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DEFINITION & NOTES

-exceeding what is natural or regular; inexplicable by ordinary means
-to ponder intently
-an associate in a profession
-to give a false appearance of or assert as if true
-not permitted
-something that lacks normal clarity or intelligibility
-adverse because of hostility or malevolence
-of, pertaining to, or like mud; living in mud
-to establish or order by appointment, decree, or law
-an unfortunate or difficult situation
-very near
-having an excessive willingness to serve or please others
-a fragment of a brittle substance; a small piece
-characterized by harsh or insistent sound
-easily handled, managed, or controlled
-free from disturbance or turmoil
-a turbulent uprising or violent agitation of mind or feelings
-to diversify in external appearance
-a thin sheet of material; a superficial or deceptively attractive appearance
-to refrain from pressing or enforcing

WORD
POS
DEFINITION & NOTES
1. Colloquial
2. Commingle
3. Complacent
4. Consummate
5. Duplicity
6. Extraneous
7. Gibbering
8. Impious
9. Ingrate
10. Maraud
11. Relegate
12. Scabbard
13. Sensuous
14. Syllogism
15. Throwback
16. Trammel
17. Transcendent
18. Unprepossessing
19. Venerable
20. Waif
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-using conversational style

-to blend thoroughly into a harmonious whole
-marked by self-satisfaction
-extremely skilled; complete in every detail
-contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action
-not forming an essential part
-to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and often foolishly
-lacking reverence or proper respect
-an ungrateful person
-to roam about and raid in search of plunder
-to assign to an appropriate place
-a sheath for a sword, dagger, or bayonet
-characterized by sense expressions or imagery aimed at the senses
-a subtle, specious, or crafty argument
-a reversion to an earlier type or phase
-to prevent or impede the free play of
-extending beyond the limits of normal experience; beyond comprehension
-not attractive or appealing to the eye
-calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments
-something found without an owner and by chance; a stray person or animal

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Antic
Bulwark
Chronicler
Cosmogony
Dissident
Hospice
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7. Laud
8. Noisome
9. Pastiche
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10. Picayune
11. Supplicant
12. Systemic
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Tenacious
Therapeutic
Tome
Travesty
Unify
Verity
Wag (n)
Wane
DEFINITION & NOTES

-an attention-drawing playful or funny action
-a strong support or protection
-one who puts things in order
-a theory of the origin of the universe
-disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system or belief
-a facility or program designed to provide a caring environment for meeting the
physical and emotional needs of the terminally ill
-praise, acclaim
-highly obnoxious or objectionable
-a musical, literary, or artistic composition made up of selections from different
works
-something trivial or of little value
-one who prays or pleads for something
-of, relating to, or common to a system; affecting the core of that which is basic to
the system
-persistent in maintaining, seeking, or adhering to something valued or desired
-providing or assisting in a cure
-a volume forming part of a larger work
-a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation
-to make into a unit or coherent whole
-something true or real
-wit, joker
-to decrease in size, extent, or degree; to fall gradually from power, prosperity, or
influence
Grade Vocabulary List 18

WORD
1. Decode
2. Demure
3. Entrails
4. Epistemic
5. Faun
6. Hedonism
7. Laudatory
8. Matriculate
9. Nettle
10. Plaudit
11. Purloin
12. Sentinel
13. Talon
14. Tarnish
15. Timorous
16. Trite
17. Urchin
18. Viscidity
19. Wax
POS
v.
adj.
n.
adj.
n.
n.
adj.
v.
v.
n.
v.
n.
n.
v.
adj.
adj.
n.
n.
v.
20. Wily
adj.
DEFINITION & NOTES

-to discover the underlying meaning of
-modest, reserved, or serious
-the inner workings of something
-of or relating to knowledge or knowing
-a figure in Roman mythology similar to but gentler than the satyr
-the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the sole or chief good in life
-of, relating to, or expressing praise
-to enroll as a member of a body and especially of a college or university
-to arouse to sharp but transitory annoyance or anger
-enthusiastic approval
-to appropriate wrongfully and often by a breach of trust
-guard; especially a soldier standing guard at a passageway
-to claw of an animal; a human finger or hand; an object shaped like a heel or claw
-to detract from the good quality of
-timid or fearful
-hackneyed or boring from much use
-a mischievous and often poor and raggedly clothed youngster
-something having an adhesive quality or covered with a sticky layer
-to assume a specified characteristic, quality, or state
-to move toward full development
-crafty

WORD
1. Arable
2. Doting
3. Excrescence
4. Incommiscible
5. Lavatory
6. Lecher
7. Mimesis
8. Mirabile dictu
9. Plaintiff
10. Rarefy
11. Remuneration
12. Scale
13. Scapegoat
14. Somatic
15. Soporific
16. Syncopation
17. Truant
18. Underscore
19. Verbiage
20. Wanton
POS
adj.
adj.
n.
adj.
n.
n.
n.
adj.
n.
v.
n.
v.
n.
adj.
adj.
n.
n.
v.
n.
adj.
DEFINITION & NOTES

-fit for or used for the growing of crops
-to exhibit mental decline; to be excessive in ones attention or affection
-a disfiguring, extraneous, or unwanted mark or part
-not mixable
-a room with conveniences for washing and usually with one or more toilets
-a person given to gluttony or sensuality
-imitation, mimicry
-wonderful to relate
-a person who brings a legal action
-to make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand without adding matter
-something that pays an equivalent for
-to climb up or to reach
-one who is the object of blame or hostility
-of, relating to, or affecting the body
-marked by sleepiness or lethargy
-a temporary displacement of the regular metrical accent in music
-one who shirks duty
-to make evident; underline
-wordiness with usually little or obscure content
-unduly lavish; extravagant

WORD
1. Acumen
2. Capricious
3. Celerity
4. Foppish
POS
n.
adj.
n.
adj.
5.
1.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
n.
n.
n.
n.
adj.
n.
n.
n.
v.
adj.
n.
adj.
adj.
adj.
n.
adj.
v.
Ilk
Leaven
Manifesto
Perfidy
Prone
Rigor
Solecism
Sybarite
Tender
Tortuous
Translucence
Trenchant
Tumultuous
Urbane
Vale
Veritable
inveigle
DEFINITION & NOTES

-keenness and depth of perception, discernment, or discrimination
-governed or characterized by sudden and seemingly unmotivated action
-rapidity of motion or action
-obsolete: foolish, silly
-behaving or dressing in a vain manner
-sort, kind
-something that modifies or lightens
-a written statement declaring publicly ones intentions, motives, or views
-an act or instance of disloyalty
-having a tendency; lying flat or prostrate
-harsh inflexibility; severe or strict; a condition that makes life difficult
-something deviating from the normal order
--luxury and gratification of sensual appetites
-to present for acceptance; offer
-marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns
-the quality of permitting the passage of light
-vigorously effective; sharply perceptive
-marked by violent or overwhelming turbulence or upheaval
-notably polite or polished or manner
-valley, dale; world
-real; being the thing named and not imaginary or false
-to acquire by ingenuity or flattery

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