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10B English
Vocab Final
| Ambidextrous | Able to use both hands equally |
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| Augment | Make Larger |
| Deploy | To position or arrange; to utilize |
| Fortitude | Courage in facing diffuculties |
| Gape | To stare with open mouth; to open the mouth wide; to open wide |
| Insidious | designed or intended to deceive or entrap; sly, treacherous |
| Pliable | Easily bent, flexible; easily influenced |
| reiterate | to say again, repeat |
| Tentative | Experimental in nature; uncertain, hesitant |
| Verbatim | Word for word; exactly as written or spoken |
| Warily | Cautiously, with great care |
| Amicable | Peaceable, friendly |
| Belligerent | Given to fighting, warlike; one at war, one engaged in war |
| Benevolent | kindly, charitable |
| Duplicity | Treachery, deceitfulness |
| Grimace | a wry face, facial distortion |
| Jeopardy | Danger |
| Nostalgia | A longing for something past; homesickness |
| Quintessence | The purest essence or form of something; the most typical example |
| Retrogress | To move backward; to return to an earlier condition |
| Scrutinize | To examine closely |
| Adversary | An enemy, opponent |
| Coerce | To compel, Force |
| Craven | Cowardly; a coward |
| Demise | A death, especially of a person in a lofty |
| Inclement | Stormy, harsh; severe in attitude or action |
| Negligible | So unimportant that can be disregarded |
| Perpetuate | To make permanent or long lasting |
| Precedent | An example that may serve as a basis for imitation |
| Punitive | Inflicting or aiming at punishment |
| Urbane | Refined in manner or style, suave |
| Affiliated | Associated, connected |
| Ascertain | to find out |
| attainment | an accomplishment; the act of achieving |
| Cogent | forceful, convincing |
| Converge | To move toward one point, approach nearer together |
| Expunge | To erase, obliterate, destroy |
| Invulnerable | not able to e wounded or hurt; shielded against attack |
| Malevolent | Spiteful, Showing ill-will |
| omniscient | Knowing everything; having unlimited awareness or understanding |
| Panacea |