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This is Vocabulary words for the 3rd quarter.

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Abhor   hates, loathes, detests  
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Abstraction   a deduction, an idea separate from specific objects  
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Acme   top, highest point of perfection  
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Affluence   riches, abundance, opulence  
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Amnesty   a general pardon for offenses against a government, a grant of immunity  
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Assuage   lessen, pacify, mitigate  
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Bilious   sour, bad-tempered, crabbed  
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Blasé   bored, uninterested  
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Captious   quibbling, carping  
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Circumspect   cautious, careful, unobjectionable  
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Contraband   smuggled goods, prohibited goods  
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Countenance   face, expression, features  
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Deleterious   bad, harmful, injurious  
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Despot   bully, dictator, tyrant  
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Dissident   disagreeing, dissenting  
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Effrontery   nerve, boldness, presumption  
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Erudite   well-read, scholarly  
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Expatiate   expand, enlarge  
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Felicitous   fitting, apt, appropriate  
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Garrulous   talkative, chattery, loquacious  
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Gesticulate   making motions, making gestures  
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Hue   shades, tints  
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Impasse   standstill, deadlock, an insoluble difficulty  
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Ineluctable   certain, unavoidable  
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Intransigent   stubborn, uncompromising, irreconcilable  
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Ken   knowing, field of knowledge, cognizance  
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Lucid   clear, enlightening, comprehensible  
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Malinger   shirking their work, evading duty, feigning incapacity  
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Mnemonic   memory improvement  
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Myriad   crowds of, very numerous, innumerable  
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Narcissistic   self-centered, self-adulatory, egoistic  
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Odious   hateful, disgusting, offensive  
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Palpitate   heat quickly, pounded  
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Paraphrase   restatement, a statement meant in other words  
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Pedant   narrow-minded, trivial person  
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Peroration   conclusion, summary, recapitulation  
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Platonic   idealistis, spiritual, unsensual  
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Pragmatic   practical, business like, factual  
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Promiscuous   loose, sexually uncontrolled  
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Recalcitrant   resisting authority, uncooperative, refractory  
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