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Vocabulary: Grade 12
Advanced words for college-bound readers, with clear definitions.
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- acumenWordSharp judgment, especially in business
- alacrityWordQuick, cheerful eagerness
- ambiguityWordUncertainty of meaning
- ameliorateWordTo make better
- anomalousWordNot following the usual pattern
- antediluvianWordExtremely old-fashioned
- apotheosisWordThe perfect example or highest point
- approbationWordApproval
- ascertainWordTo find out for certain
- assuageWordTo make less severe
- attenuateWordTo make thinner or weaker
- axiomWordA statement accepted as true
- bellwetherWordA leader or indicator of trends
- byzantineWordVery complicated
- cacophonousWordHarsh-sounding
- canonicalWordAccepted as a standard
- capitulateWordTo give in
- catharticWordBringing emotional release
- circuitousWordTaking a long, roundabout way
- cognizantWordAware
- commensurateWordIn proportion to
- conflagrationWordA large destructive fire
- connotationWordAn idea suggested by a word beyond its literal meaning
- consternationWordDismay or alarm
- cynosureWordA center of attention
- dearthWordA scarcity
- debacleWordA total failure
- decryWordTo publicly condemn
- dichotomyWordA division into two opposite parts
- diffidentWordShy and lacking confidence
- dilettanteWordA person with shallow interest in a subject
- discursiveWordWandering from topic to topic
- disingenuousWordNot sincere
- dissonanceWordHarsh clash of sounds or ideas
- ebullientWordOverflowing with enthusiasm
- effronteryWordShameless boldness
- elegyWordA sad poem for someone who died
- empiricalWordBased on evidence
- epitomeWordA perfect example
- equitableWordFair
- erroneousWordWrong
- evanescentWordQuickly fading
- exacerbateWordTo make worse
- exhaustiveWordComplete in every detail
- exigencyWordAn urgent need
- fastidiousWordHard to please
- fortitudeWordStrength of mind in hard times
- gratuitousWordGiven without good reason
- harbingerWordA sign of what is coming
- idyllicWordPeaceful and charming
- imperturbableWordUnable to be upset
- indefatigableWordNever tiring
- ingenuousWordInnocent and open
- inimicalWordHarmful or hostile
- insurmountableWordToo great to overcome
- juxtaposeWordTo place side by side for contrast
- lassitudeWordWeariness
- magnanimityWordGenerosity of spirit
- perfunctoryWordDone with little care
- perniciousWordVery harmful
- perspicaciousWordHaving keen insight
- pithyWordShort and full of meaning
- quixoticWordIdealistic but impractical
- recalcitrantWordStubbornly resisting
- sanguineWordCheerfully hopeful
- sycophantWordA person who flatters for gain
- taciturnWordSaying very little
- tenuousWordWeak or thin
- trepidationWordFearful worry
- vicissitudeWordA change of circumstances
- vociferousWordLoud and forceful
- zealousWordFull of eager energy
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