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High School: 12th Grade
ambience     Speak
 
(1)
n.  
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elevated platform for public speaking; pulpit
particular environment or surrounding influence; atmosphere of environment
testimony under oath; act of depositing, especially laying down of matter by natural process
a deceitful and unreliable person; a dishonest or worthless person
an expert who gives advice
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avow     Speak
 
(2)
v.  
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make wider or larger; cause to expand; enlarge; widen
overwhelm; cover with water, especially floodwaters
declare openly; acknowledge openly, boldly, and unashamedly
scold harshly; criticize severely
reach the highest or most decisive point; rise to summit
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cater     Speak
 
(3)
v.  
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approve formally; confirm; verify
cut with an ax; fell with a sharp instrument; form or shape with a sharp instrument; cut
make false appearance of; disguise; conceal; invent or imagine
supply what is needed or desired; provide food professionally for special occasion
offer sudden or harsh resistance; turn down or shut out; repel or drive back
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curtail     Speak
 
(4)
v.  
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feel regret, remorse, or sorrow for; mourn
attract with something desirable; be highly, often subtly attractive
adorn; make beautiful, as by ornamentation; decorate
make amends for; pay compensation for; secure against future loss, damage, or liability
cut short or reduce; cut off end or tail, or any part
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dearth     Speak
 
(5)
n.  
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extended scolding; long angry or violent speech
legacy; something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition
death notice; list of dead
scarcity; shortage of food; famine from failure or loss of crops
the direction in which something, such as a building, faces; the face or front of a building
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dignitary     Speak
 
(6)
n.  
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participation; involvement as partner or accomplice, especially in crime or other wrongdoing
state of being unmarried; single life
sector; portion; any of the parts into which something can be divided
offensive to accepted standards of decency or modesty; repulsive; disgusting
an important or influential person, and often overbearing
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embryo     Speak
 
(7)
n.  
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applying pressure; encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required
completely undeveloped form; an animal organism in the early stages of growth
small or simply constructed dwelling; small, wretched house
person who eats too much food and drink
mildness, as of the weather; merciful, kind, or lenient act
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esteem     Speak
 
(8)
v.  
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assent; accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively
seize and hold power or rights of another by force or without legal authority
be excessively fond of; show signs of mental decline
regard with respect; favorable regard
completely destroy; eliminate; exterminate
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flail     Speak
 
(9)
v.  
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thresh about; give a thrashing to; beat hard
make uneasy or anxious; trouble
make necessary or indispensable; render unavoidable
recover; return to health or strength; recover from financial loss
overwhelm; cover with water, especially floodwaters
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glutton     Speak
 
(10)
n.  
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factor; something that is likely to vary; changeable; inconstant
god; divinity; supernatural things
an expert who gives advice
condition or quality of being completely forgotten; official overlooking of offenses; amnesty
person who eats too much food and drink
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infatuate     Speak
 
(11)
v.  
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spend wastefully; fail to take advantage of; lose a chance for
inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; fill with inhabitants
arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way
debase; degrade; spread negative information about
scold harshly; criticize severely
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intolerable     Speak
 
(12)
a. or ad.  
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incapable of being put up with; unable to be endured
essential or necessary for completeness; entire
determined; stubbornly persevering; unyielding
of or relating to a focus; having or localized centrally at a focus
impenetrable by light; not transparent; not reflecting light; having no luster
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manor     Speak
 
(13)
n.  
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an exaggerated expression, usually of praise; the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
the mansion of a lord or wealthy person; the landed estate of a lord
animal, such as an insect, that lacks backbone or spinal column
body excluding head and neck and limbs
a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber, especially beneath a church
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pacify     Speak
 
(14)
v.  
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fall apart; become reduced to components, fragments, or particles
make poor; reduce to poverty or indigence; exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of
make or declare void or invalid; reduce to nothing
ease anger or agitation of; make calm or quiet; end war or violence
return to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief; backslide; turn back to
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pliable     Speak
 
(15)
a. or ad.  
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flexible; yielding; easily bent or shaped
habitually complaining; expressing complaint or grievance
increasing by successive addition
existing, happening, or done at the same time
attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety; wakeful; watchful; circumspect; wary
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ratify     Speak
 
(16)
v.  
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settle accounts to pay them off; clear up
blacken; defame; attack reputation of; degrade
approve formally; confirm; verify
free from bondage, oppression, or restraint; liberate
ease anger or agitation of; make calm or quiet; end war or violence
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sally     Speak
 
(17)
n.  
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something that has been in a family for generations
extended scolding; long angry or violent speech
the exercise of control or influence over someone or something
the deliberate act of failing to pay money; the act of physically escaping from something by some adroit maneuver
a sudden rushing forth or activity; an excursion or trip, usually off the main course; witty remark
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skeptical     Speak
 
(18)
a. or ad.  
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final; complete; precisely defined or explicit
marked by or given to doubt; questioning
secretive; not openly acknowledged or displayed
particularly; specifically; in an explicit manner
existing, happening, or done at the same time
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torrid     Speak
 
(19)
a. or ad.  
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lacking in energy or will; peacefully resistant in response to injustice
passionate; hot or scorching; hurried or rapid
performed with a natural or offhand ease
inoffensive expression of fat; stout
marked by or given to doubt; questioning
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ultimatum     Speak
 
(20)
n.  
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the mansion of a lord or wealthy person; the landed estate of a lord
last offer; final statement of terms made by one party to another
a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source
oval building with tiers of seats from central open space or arena
divine gift; great popular charm or appeal of political leader
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