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High School: 12th Grade
aesthetic     Speak
 
(1)
a. or ad.  
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elegant or tasteful; of or concerning appreciation of beauty or good taste
of very poor quality or condition; bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
feeling or showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent
capable of being accomplished or brought about
incapable of being overcome or defeated; unconquerable
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befall     Speak
 
(2)
v.  
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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
scold harshly; criticize severely
settle accounts to pay them off; clear up
happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance
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castigate     Speak
 
(3)
v.  
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regard with respect; favorable regard
criticize severely; punish; revise or make corrections to publication
warn; counsel someone against something to be avoided
declare openly; acknowledge openly, boldly, and unashamedly
make very hot and dry; become superficially burned
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contentious     Speak
 
(4)
a. or ad.  
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middle class; selfishly materialistic; dully conventional
various; miscellaneous; separate; distinct; diverse
quarrelsome; disagreeable; marked by heated arguments or controversy
secret; done or made by stealth, or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently
broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce
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debutante     Speak
 
(5)
n.  
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young woman making formal entrance into society
introduction; forerunner; preliminary or preface
a state of cooperation; agreement of results or opinions; acting together
sequence; act of moving forward toward a goal
preference; tendency; inclined surface; slope
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dilate     Speak
 
(6)
v.  
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make wider or larger; cause to expand; enlarge; widen
extinguish; put down forcibly; suppress; pacify or quiet
increase severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate
lengthen; extend; make or grow longer
be excessively fond of; show signs of mental decline
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eloquent     Speak
 
(7)
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sour or bitter in taste; harsh or corrosive in tone
skilled; expert; having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
elegant or tasteful; of or concerning appreciation of beauty or good taste
vividly or movingly expressive; persuasive
gloomy; depressing or grave; dull or dark in color
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expatriate     Speak
 
(8)
n.  
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someone who has withdrawn from his native land
a diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country
form of literature in which irony and ridicule are used to attack human vice and folly
something that helps bring about an action or a desired result; an incentive
savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty
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forum     Speak
 
(9)
n.  
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completely undeveloped form; an animal organism in the early stages of growth
place to discuss public concerns; meeting or medium for open discussion
language used by a special group; technical terminology; nonsensical or meaningless talk
a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance; an enclosed conduit for a fluid
temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent
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humdrum     Speak
 
(10)
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energetic; vigorously active
unrestrained; willfully malicious; immoral or unchaste
lacking variety or excitement; monotonous
improperly forward or bold; rude
capable of being accomplished or brought about
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indisposed     Speak
 
(11)
a. or ad.  
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being of the most miserable kind; wretched; lacking pride; brought low in condition or status
vividly or movingly expressive; persuasive
queer; amusingly odd; comical
averse; disinclined; unwilling to do a task
unoriginal; derived from another source
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linear     Speak
 
(12)
a. or ad.  
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having form of a line; straight; consisting of lines; lineal
unoriginal; derived from another source
barren; infertile; incapable of reproducing; free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms
not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper
possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid
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metaphysical     Speak
 
(13)
a. or ad.  
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of or relating to the cervix of the uterus; relating to the neck
causing or fitted to cause dismay or horror; frightful
lacking variety or excitement; monotonous
having slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; inclined
without material form or substance; based on abstract reasoning; highly abstract or theoretical; supernatural
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permeate     Speak
 
(14)
v.  
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spread or flow throughout; pervade
free from bondage, oppression, or restraint; liberate
regard with respect; favorable regard
make necessary or indispensable; render unavoidable
thresh about; give a thrashing to; beat hard
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prose     Speak
 
(15)
n.  
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involuntary and unnatural contraction of one or more muscles or muscular fibers
essay; ordinary speech or writing; commonplace expression or quality
refinement and delicacy of performance; skillful, subtle handling
the deliberate act of failing to pay money; the act of physically escaping from something by some adroit maneuver
a deceitful and unreliable person; a dishonest or worthless person
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radiate     Speak
 
(16)
v.  
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thresh about; give a thrashing to; beat hard
overwhelm; cover with water, especially floodwaters
lengthen; extend; make or grow longer
happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance
spread out; effuse; issue or emerge in rays or waves
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revert     Speak
 
(17)
v.  
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copy; write over again in same words
decide upon and express in words
organize anew, as after a setback
pound, crush, or grind to powder or dust
return to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief; backslide; turn back to
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simultaneous     Speak
 
(18)
a. or ad.  
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existing, happening, or done at the same time
secretive; not openly acknowledged or displayed
having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception
relating to, or produced by motion; dynamic
having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
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tawdry     Speak
 
(19)
a. or ad.  
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expecting a baby; carrying within the body or being about to produce new life
energetic; vigorously active
flexible; yielding; easily bent or shaped
cheap in nature or appearance; tastelessly showy; shameful or indecent
sparing; economical; costing little; inexpensive
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wend     Speak
 
(20)
v.  
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go in a specified direction, typically slowly or by an indirect route
make false appearance of; disguise; conceal; invent or imagine
combine something into a larger whole; unite
thresh about; give a thrashing to; beat hard
restore to good condition; renew
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