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High School: 12th Grade
annihilate     Speak
 
(1)
v.  
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gather into a mass, sum, or whole; amount to
spread out; effuse; issue or emerge in rays or waves
attract with something desirable; be highly, often subtly attractive
destroy completely; reduce to nonexistence
restore to good condition; renew
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broach     Speak
 
(2)
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criticize severely; punish; revise or make corrections to publication
introduce; bring up for discussion or debate; announce
scatter; drive away; cause to vanish
make very hot and dry; become superficially burned
voice or convey disapproval of; rebuke; find fault with
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cervical     Speak
 
(3)
a. or ad.  
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conforming to accepted standards of social or professional behavior; adhering to ethical and moral principles
quick and skillful; neat in action or performance
obscure; profound; difficult to understand.
of or relating to the cervix of the uterus; relating to the neck
unrestrained; willfully malicious; immoral or unchaste
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contentious     Speak
 
(4)
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conforming to accepted standards of social or professional behavior; adhering to ethical and moral principles
energetic; vigorously active
simple and healthful and close to nature
quarrelsome; disagreeable; marked by heated arguments or controversy
deserving or inciting pity; causing feelings of sympathy
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denigrate     Speak
 
(5)
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go in a specified direction, typically slowly or by an indirect route
infuse or fill completely; fertilize and cause to grow; make pregnant
spend wastefully; fail to take advantage of; lose a chance for
inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; fill with inhabitants
blacken; defame; attack reputation of; degrade
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devastate     Speak
 
(6)
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distribute; prepare and give out; deal out in parts or portions
make poor; reduce to poverty or indigence; exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of
treat with great respect and deference; consider hallowed or be in awe of
ruin; lay waste; destroy; make desolate
declare openly; acknowledge openly, boldly, and unashamedly
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emancipate     Speak
 
(7)
v.  
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distribute; prepare and give out; deal out in parts or portions
occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance
analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to a sentence
scold harshly; criticize severely
free from bondage, oppression, or restraint; liberate
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farcical     Speak
 
(8)
a. or ad.  
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expecting the worst possible outcome
fickle; impulsive and unpredictable; apt to change opinions suddenly
inactive; lacking power to move; unable to move or act
feeling or showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent
broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce
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foible     Speak
 
(9)
n.  
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the quality or state of something that is not easily changed or likely to change
animal, such as an insect, that lacks backbone or spinal column
last offer; final statement of terms made by one party to another
willingness to carry out the wishes of others; great respect
moral weakness; failing; weak point; slight fault
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heirloom     Speak
 
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extended scolding; long angry or violent speech
long and slender with a very small internal diameter
something that has been in a family for generations
an important or influential person, and often overbearing
branch that flows into the main stream; tending to bring about; being partly responsible for
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insufferable     Speak
 
(11)
a. or ad.  
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of or relating to the cervix of the uterus; relating to the neck
tending to include all; taking a great deal or everything within its scope
incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable
sour or bitter in taste; harsh or corrosive in tone
causing disapproval or protest; very annoying or objectionable; offensive
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laud     Speak
 
(12)
v.  
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settle accounts to pay them off; clear up
recover; return to health or strength; recover from financial loss
annoy; disturb, especially by minor irritations; be a mystery or bewildering to
give praise to; glorify; celebrate or honor
form into grains or small masses; make rough on surface
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metaphysical     Speak
 
(13)
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possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid
gloomy; depressing or grave; dull or dark in color
flexible; yielding; easily bent or shaped
without material form or substance; based on abstract reasoning; highly abstract or theoretical; supernatural
feeling or showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent
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passive     Speak
 
(14)
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counterfeit or fake; not authentic; not genuine
evoking lifelike images within the mind; pertaining to or consisting of pictures
capable of being transmitted by infection, especially for disease; readily communicated
lacking in energy or will; peacefully resistant in response to injustice
nature of, or being a contradiction; mutually exclusive; opposing
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plebeian     Speak
 
(15)
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final; complete; precisely defined or explicit
essential or necessary for completeness; entire
crude or coarse; unrefined or coarse in nature or manner; common or vulgar
lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance
untidy; dirty; uncared for in appearance
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quell     Speak
 
(16)
v.  
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give praise to; glorify; celebrate or honor
cause being in bad temper; disappoint; disconcert
declare openly; acknowledge openly, boldly, and unashamedly
criticize severely; punish; revise or make corrections to publication
extinguish; put down forcibly; suppress; pacify or quiet
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reprove     Speak
 
(17)
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call on or summon by sacred name or in solemn manner; implore earnestly; practice magical arts
arrange or enter in tabular form; shape or cut with a flat surface
cut with an ax; fell with a sharp instrument; form or shape with a sharp instrument; cut
pollute; make dirty or spotty
voice or convey disapproval of; rebuke; find fault with
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skeptical     Speak
 
(18)
a. or ad.  
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secretive; not openly acknowledged or displayed
carefully aware of all circumstances; cautious
marked by or given to doubt; questioning
youthful; immature; inexperienced; without feathers
expecting a baby; carrying within the body or being about to produce new life
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torrid     Speak
 
(19)
a. or ad.  
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inadequate; lacking an essential quality or element
obvious and dull; commonplace; lacking originality
passionate; hot or scorching; hurried or rapid
artificial; involving or of the nature of synthesis as opposed to analysis
having form of a line; straight; consisting of lines; lineal
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unkempt     Speak
 
(20)
a. or ad.  
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untidy; dirty; uncared for in appearance
quick and skillful; neat in action or performance
not enduring; not able to endure; unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion
capable of being accomplished or brought about
averse; disinclined; unwilling to do a task
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