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Need To Know Words.
100 Words That All High School Graduates Should Know
Question | Answer |
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abjure | to renounce, repudiate, or retract, especially with formal solemnity; recant |
abrogate | to abolish by formal or official means; annul by an authoritative act; repeal |
abstemious | sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet. |
acumen | keen insight; shrewdness |
antebellum | before or existing before the war, especially the American civil war. |
auspicious | promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable |
belie | to show to be false; contradict |
bellicose | inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious. |
bowdlerize | to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable. |
chicanery | trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry |