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Root Words 6-12
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English
9th Grade
03/21/2012

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Luc, lum, lus, lun
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Light
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Magn
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Great
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Man
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Hand
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Mand
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Command
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Mania
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Madness
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Mar, Mari, Mer
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Sea, pool
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Matr
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Mother
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Meter
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Measure
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Micro
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Small
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Migra
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Wander
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Mit, miss
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Send
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Mob, mot, mov
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Move
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Mor, mort
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Mortal, death
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Multi
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Many, much
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Nov
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New
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Ortho
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Straight, correct
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Pater, patr
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Father
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Pedo
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Child
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Plu, plur, plus
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More
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Pop
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People
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Port
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Carry
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Prim, prime
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First
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Punct
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Point, dot
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Salv, salu
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Safe, healthy
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Scope
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See, watch
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Scrib, scrip
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Write
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Serv
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Save, serve
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Simil, simul
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Like, resembling
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Sol
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Alone
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Sphere
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Ball, sphere
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Spir
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Breath
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String, strict
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Draw tight
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Stru, struct
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Build
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Tele
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Far
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Tox
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Poison
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Tract, tra
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Draw, pull
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Turbo
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Disturb
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Vac
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Empty
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Ver, very
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True
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Vert, vers
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Turn
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Vid, vis
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See
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Viv, vita, vivi
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Alive, life
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Voc
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Call
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Vol
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Will
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Vor
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Eat greedily
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Zo
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Animal
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A, an
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Not, without
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Anti, ant
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Against
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Be
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On, away
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Bene, bon
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Well
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Bi
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Both, double
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By
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Side, close, near
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Co, con, col, com
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Together, with
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De
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From, down
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Di
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Two, twice
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Dia
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Through, between
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Dis, dif
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Apart, away, reverse
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Dys
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Badly, ill
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Em, en
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in, into
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Eu
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Good
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ex, e, ec, ef
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Out
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Extra, extro
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Beyond, outside
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Il, ir, in, im
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Not
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Inter
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Between
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Intra
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Within
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Intro
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Into, inward
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Mal
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Badly, poorly
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Mis
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Incorrect, bad
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Mono
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One
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Homo
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Man
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Pugnacious
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Combative; eager for a fight
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Cataclysm
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An intense and voilent disaster or change
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Stagnant
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Stale and foul because of lack of movement; lacking progress or vitality
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Pulverize
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To pound, crush, or grind into powder or dust
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Obliterate
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To wipe out completely; to do away with leaving no trace
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Mar
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To inflict damage or spoil the quality of
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Havoc
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Widespread destruction and devastation; chaos and disorder
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Eradication
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The act of tearing out by the roots, or of eliminating as if tearing out by the roots
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Decomposition
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The process of rotting, breaking down or disintegtating
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Blight
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To have a negative effect on; to ruin

A) something that ruins or greatly harms, a terrible condition, environment, or process
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Devious
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Meant to trick; not straight forward; shifty
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Duplicity
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Deliberate deception in behavior or sleep
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Fictitious
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A) False or fake; adopter or assumed in order to deceive
B) Imaginary; unreal; relating to fiction
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Guile
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Sly intelligence; craftiness with the intention to deceive
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Gullible
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Easily deceived or fooled
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Hypocritical
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Giving a false appearance; saying one thing, but doing another
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Masquerade
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To disguise oneself; to put on a false or deceptive appearance

A) A disguise or false appearance; a scheme or charade
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Overt
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Open and observable; not hidden or secret
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Reputable
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Having a good reputation; well thought of; honorable or trustworthy
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Veracity
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Truthfulness or accuracy; conformity to fact or truth
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Broach
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To bring up a subject for discussion
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Convene
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To assemble formally; to come together officially
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Debut
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To make a first public appearance

A) a first public appearance
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Embark
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To board a ship or plane

A) To start a major effort, to set out on a venture
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Generate
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To create, to bring into being
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Incipient
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Beginning to exist or appear
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Initiative
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A beginning or an introductory step; an opening move

A) The ability or wish to start something; enterprise; determination
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Innovation
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Something newly introduced or created
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Novice
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Beginner
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Overture
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A) a piece of music intended to introduce a longer work

B) An actor offer showing readiness to form a relationship or to negotiate
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Acme
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Highest point of achievement
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Adept
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Very skillful
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Aptitude
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A) Natural ability
B) Quickness in understanding, intelligence
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Astute
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Having shrewd judgement; observant, clever, and cunning
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Finesse
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To achieve a goal or handle a situation with subtle skill

A) Skillful handling of a difficult situation
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Painstaking
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Marked by or requiring great care; demanding extended or extreme effort, or diligence
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Precocious
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Showing unusually early development or maturity
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Prodigy
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A person, often young, with exceptional talents or power
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Resourceful
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Effective and imaginative in solving problems; practical
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Virtuoso
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A very skilled musician or other type of artist; an expert or master asrtist
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Idiosyncrasy
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An unusual habit of one particular person
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Innocuous
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Harmless; not likely to offend anyone
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Obtrusive
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A) Unpleasantly noticeable; bold
B) Thrusting out
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Orthodox
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A) Doing and believing what is commonly accepted or customary

B) Following established faiths and beliefs
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Prevalent
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Widely or common existing or practiced
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Prosaic
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Dull; ordinary; lacking in imagination or spirit
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Quaint
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Charmingly odd, especially in an old-fashioned way
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Rarity
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Something that is very infrequent or scarce
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Singular
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A) Being the only one of a kind, unique
B) Being beyond what is ordinary or usual, remarkable
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Trite
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overused and therefore lacking in interest
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Appraisal
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Evaluation of worth
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Base
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Low or inferior in position
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Candid
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Frank, honest, expressing ones honest opinion

B) Not posed or rehearsed
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Criterion
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A standard of judgement
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Dexterity
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A) Skill and grace in physical movement
B) Cleverness
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Legitimate
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A) Lawful, proper and acceptable
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Mediocre
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Moderate to inferior in quality
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Meritorious
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Worthy, deserving of praise
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Truism
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A statement of self-evident truth
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Validate
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To establish or confirm the truth or legality of something
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Circumlocution
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The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language
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Cogent
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Logical and convincing; appealing to reason
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Discourse
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Formal speech or writing
A) To speak or write formally, and at length
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Falter
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A) To hesitate or stammer in speech
B) To move or function in an unsteady way
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Literate
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Able to read and write; knowledgeable; educated
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Prattle
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To talk foolishly; to chatter
B) Foolish
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Raconteur
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A person who tells stories and relates incidents with skill and wit
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Sophistry
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Clever arguments that are misleading or incorrect
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Utterance
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Something that is said
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Verbose
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Using or containing too many words; excessively wordy
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