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Word Smart 12
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English
11th Grade
12/01/2008

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Brook
Definition
to bear or tolerate; to put up with something
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Desiccate
Definition
to dry out
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Erudite
Definition
scholarly; deeply learned
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Flag
Definition
to weaken; to slow down
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Impudent
Definition
bold; impertinent
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Baleful
Definition
menacing; harmful
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Divergent
Definition
differin in opinion; deviating
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Effluvium
Definition
a disagreeable or noxious vapor; an escaping gas
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Evanescent
Definition
vanishing or fading; scarcely perceptible
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Exigent
Definition
emanding prompt action; urgent
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Exonerate
Definition
to free completly from blame
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Flaunt
Definition
to show off; to display osentationsly
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Improvident
Definition
lacking prudent foresight; careless
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Ineluctable
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inescapable; unavoidable
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Mellifluous
Definition
sweetly flowing
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Oscillate
Definition
to swing back and forth; to fluctuate
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Ossify
Definition
to convert into bone; to beocme rigid
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Probity
Definition
integrity; uprightness; honesty
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Proselytize
Definition
to convert someone from one religiono r doctrine to another; to recruit converts to a religion or doctrine
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Pundit
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a learned person; an expert in a particular field
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Recondite
Definition
hard to understand; over one's head
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Spendthrift
Definition
extravagant or wasteful, especially with money
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Vacuous
Definition
lacking ideas or intelligence
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Coda
Definition
a passage concluding a composition in music
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Penchant
Definition
strong taste or liking
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Abstruse
Definition
hard to understand or grasp
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Cognizant
Definition
perceptive; observant
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Gainsay
Definition
to deny; to speak or act against
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Garner
Definition
to gather and store
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Obdurate
Definition
stubborn; inflexible
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Propinquity
Definition
nearness
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Ribald
Definition
vulgar or indecent speech or language, as in a ribald joke
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Sinuous
Definition
having many curves
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Veracity
Definition
truthfulness
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