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Vocabulary: Grade 11

Grade 11 words with clear definitions.

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  • abstruseWord
    Hard to understand
  • acerbicWord
    Sharp and harsh in tone
  • admonishWord
    To warn gently but firmly
  • anachronismWord
    Something out of its proper time
  • anathemaWord
    A thing strongly disliked
  • apocryphalWord
    Of doubtful authenticity
  • appeaseWord
    To calm by giving in
  • arcaneWord
    Known by few; mysterious
  • auspiciousWord
    Suggesting a good future
  • avariceWord
    Greed for wealth
  • beguileWord
    To charm or trick
  • bombasticWord
    High-sounding but meaningless
  • cajoleWord
    To persuade with flattery
  • censoriousWord
    Severely critical
  • charlatanWord
    A person who fakes skill
  • churlishWord
    Rude and bad-tempered
  • cloyingWord
    Too sweet
  • conundrumWord
    A confusing problem
  • countenanceWord
    A person's face or expression
  • deleteriousWord
    Harmful
  • demurWord
    To object politely
  • despotWord
    A ruler with absolute power
  • disabuseWord
    To free from a false belief
  • efficaciousWord
    Producing the wanted result
  • enmityWord
    Deep hostility
  • ennuiWord
    Boredom
  • ephemeralWord
    Short-lived
  • equivocateWord
    To use unclear words to avoid commitment
  • esotericWord
    Understood by only a few
  • exculpateWord
    To clear from blame
  • exigentWord
    Urgent
  • extantWord
    Still existing
  • facetiousWord
    Joking at the wrong time
  • fatuousWord
    Silly
  • fecundWord
    Fertile
  • fulminateWord
    To protest loudly
  • gainsayWord
    To deny
  • gaucheWord
    Awkward socially
  • grandiloquentWord
    Using fancy language
  • hegemonyWord
    Leadership or dominance by one group
  • histrionicWord
    Overly dramatic
  • hubrisWord
    Excessive pride
  • impecuniousWord
    Having little money
  • inchoateWord
    Just begun, not formed
  • ineffableWord
    Too great to be put in words
  • insipidWord
    Lacking flavor or interest
  • inveterateWord
    Long established
  • lachrymoseWord
    Tearful
  • loquaciousWord
    Talkative
  • lugubriousWord
    Mournful
  • malleableWord
    Easily shaped
  • mendaciousWord
    Lying
  • mercurialWord
    Quickly changing in mood
  • misanthropeWord
    One who dislikes people
  • mollifyWord
    To soothe
  • obdurateWord
    Stubbornly refusing
  • obsequiousWord
    Too eager to please

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