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A fragment of the vocabulary words appearing. (Class second quarter)

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Abject   cast down, spiritless  
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Aesthetic   sensitive to beauty  
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Alacrity   a cheerful briskness  
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Auspicious   lucky, promising, favorable  
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Blatant   obvious, obtrusive  
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Capitulate   surrender on terms agreed upon, yield  
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Cogent   persuasive, brilliantly compelling  
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Conjecture   supposition, opinion  
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Cursory   hurried, rapid, superficial  
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Decorous   proper, becoming, suitable  
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Diffident   shy, timid  
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Disdain   despise, think him unworthy  
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Docile   obedient, manageable, unresisting  
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Equanimity   composure, calm temper, evenness of mind  
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Facade   front, false exterior  
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Facetious   inappropriately witty  
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Fastidious   particular, meticulous, hard to please  
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Fatuous   silly, complacently foolish  
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Flaunt   display, show off, boast of  
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Furtive   sly, stealthy, shifty  
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Glib   thoughtlessly, talkative, suspiciously, fluent  
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Gregarious   good mixer, enjoy meeting people  
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Harangue   noisy, pompous speech  
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Idiosyncrasy   oddness, eccentricity  
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Illicit   unlawful, furtive  
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Importune   insistently, begged, persistently urged  
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Incredulous   skeptical, disbelieving  
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Inexorable   inflexible, unyielding  
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Invective   abuse, angry reproach  
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Loquacious   talkative, garrulous  
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Ludicrous   laughable, ridiculous  
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Martinet   strict discipline  
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Maudlin   weakly sentimental  
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Nebulous   vague, hazy  
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Obsequious   servily attentive, fawning  
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Ostracize   banned from social and political favor  
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Panacea   cure-all  
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Pander   to provide gratification to another's vice  
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Placate   appease, pacify  
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Prodigious   huge, monstrous, mighty  
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Prolific   inventive, fertile, productive  
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Propensity   leaning, bent, natural inclination  
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Prudent   wisely cautious  
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Redundant   overly wordy  
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Surreptitious   without proper authority, by sly, clandestine  
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Taciturn   reserve, habitually silent  
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Truculent   fierce, savage, cruel  
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Vacillate   hesitate, waver, change  
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