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Vocabulary: Grade 10

Grade 10 words with clear definitions.

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  • acquiesceWord
    To agree without protest
  • affableWord
    Friendly and easy to talk to
  • ameliorateWord
    To make better
  • anomalyWord
    Something that does not fit the pattern
  • aplombWord
    Self-confidence
  • ardentWord
    Passionate
  • asceticWord
    Living with strict self-denial
  • assiduousWord
    Hardworking
  • audacityWord
    Boldness
  • bellicoseWord
    Eager to fight
  • bucolicWord
    Relating to countryside life
  • capriciousWord
    Changing mood suddenly
  • causticWord
    Biting or burning in tone
  • chicaneryWord
    Trickery
  • circumventWord
    To go around
  • clemencyWord
    Mercy
  • cohesiveWord
    Sticking together well
  • compunctionWord
    A pang of guilty feeling
  • copiousWord
    In large amounts
  • cursoryWord
    Hasty and not thorough
  • dauntingWord
    Seeming hard and scary
  • denounceWord
    To publicly condemn
  • derelictWord
    Neglected; abandoned
  • desultoryWord
    Lacking a plan
  • diatribeWord
    A bitter verbal attack
  • discrepancyWord
    A difference between things that should match
  • disparageWord
    To speak of as having little value
  • dissuadeWord
    To talk someone out of something
  • effervescentWord
    Bubbly
  • egregiousWord
    Outstandingly bad
  • empiricalWord
    Based on observation
  • enervateWord
    To drain of energy
  • ephemeralWord
    Short-lived
  • equanimityWord
    Calmness under stress
  • exactingWord
    Demanding great care
  • exhortWord
    To strongly urge
  • extolWord
    To praise highly
  • fallacyWord
    A mistaken belief
  • ferventWord
    Showing intense feeling
  • flagrantWord
    Shockingly obvious
  • fledglingWord
    New and inexperienced
  • fractiousWord
    Irritable and quarrelsome
  • furtiveWord
    Sneaky
  • gregariousWord
    Sociable
  • guileWord
    Sly cunning
  • hackneyedWord
    Overused
  • iconoclastWord
    One who attacks cherished beliefs
  • impetusWord
    A force that starts something moving
  • implacableWord
    Unable to be calmed
  • inclementWord
    Stormy or harsh weather
  • incongruousWord
    Out of place
  • indolentWord
    Lazy
  • inexorableWord
    Impossible to stop
  • insidiousWord
    Sneakily harmful
  • intrepidWord
    Fearless
  • irascibleWord
    Easily angered
  • laconicWord
    Using few words
  • laudWord
    To praise

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