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Eng. 2 Hon List 5
English 2 Honors List 5
Question | Answer |
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flagrant | obvious, outrageous, glaringly bad; often paired with foul |
egregious | remarkably bad; often paired with mistake |
admonish | warn or reprimand someone firmly. |
distraught | mentally confused, crazed |
duress | compulsion, force |
duplicity | cunning, trickery |
culprit | the guilty person |
acrimonious | bitter |
inexorable | inflexible, unrelenting |
paucity | scarcity or lacking |
precocious | reaching maturity early |
disparage | to discredit, belittle |
perfunctory | done without care, superficial |
laudable | praiseworthy |
chagrin | feeling of disappointment, humiliation |
fiasco | complete failure |
perverse | contrary, persisting in error |
masticate | to chew up |
deride | to ridicule, scoff at |
eschew | avoid |