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English III Honors Vocab

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Cogent   To the point; relevant, pertinent, believable  
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Didactic   Meant to instruct  
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Abstruse   Hard to understand; esoteric; secret, hidden  
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Dilatory   Slow, tardy, tending to procrastinate  
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Enervate   To deprive of force or strength  
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Indolent   Slothful; lacking energy  
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Soporific   Causing/tending to cause sleep  
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Paucity   Insufficient  
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Frenetic   Frantic  
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Garrulous   Chattering; babbling; talkative  
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Insipid   Boring; pointless  
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Egregious   Extraordinary/obvious in some bad way  
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Imperious   Domineering in a haughty manner  
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Assiduous   Constant; unremitting  
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Fastidious   Picky; demanding; hard to please  
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Punctilious   Extremely attentive to detail  
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Auspicious   Promising success; favored by fortune  
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Spurious   Not genuine; not authentic or true  
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Capricious   Unpredictable; impulsive  
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Pejorative   Belittling; tending to make worse  
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Exculpate or Vindicate   Free from blame or accusations  
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Deleterious   Harmful to health  
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Stymied   To hinder, block, or thwart  
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Amenable   Agreeable or even submissive  
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Salutary   Beneficial, especially to health  
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Sanguine   Cheerfully optimistic  
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Innocuous   Harmless  
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Fractious   Unruly; readily angered  
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Insolent   Boldly rude or disrespectful  
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Obdurate   Stubborn; unable to be persuaded  
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Parsimonious   Stingy  
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Itinerant   Traveling from place to place  
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Transitory   Not permanent  
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Harbinger   One who announces the approach/coming of another  
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Capacious   Spacious; capable of holding much  
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Copious   Full of something, especially information or matter  
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Prodigious   Extraordinary in size, amount or extent  
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Pragmatic   Logical, having a good point of view  
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Conflagration   A large, destructive fire  
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Clandestine   Secret  
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Implacable   Unable to be brought to peace or reconciled  
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Mercurial   Changeable; volatile  
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Pugnacious   Inclined to fight/quarrel; quarrelsome  
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Furtive   Secretive  
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Impetuous   Sudden or rash in action  
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Equanimity   Mental/emotional stability/composure  
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Incontrovertible   Set in stone; unable to be changed  
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Inveterate   Settled; established; (in some cases,) chronic  
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Reticent   Told not to speak freely  
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Surreptitious   Done with secrecy  
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Ephemeral   Lasting a very short time  
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Tenuous   Thin or slender in form  
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Timorous   Full of fear; fearful  
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Trepidation   Trembling or quivering movement  
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Prosaic   Commonplace; dull  
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Eclectic   From different sources  
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Laudatory   Containing/expressing praise  
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Trenchant   Incisive or keen  
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