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ACT 2
Ms. Cason's Hon. English III A ACT Word List 2
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English
11th Grade
12/02/2010

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Aberration
Definition
insanity, dementia, derangement, lunacy, madness, mania, rage
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Adumbrate
Definition
foreshadow, forerun, harbinger, herald, prefigure
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Ardent
Definition
: fervent, blazing, burning, charged, demonstrative, emotional, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming
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Belie
Definition
misrepresent
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Blandishment
Definition
something that tends to coax or cajole : allurement —often used in plural
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Captious
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: critical, carping, caviling (or cavilling), faultfinding, hypercritical, judgmental, overcritical, rejective
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Commiserate
Definition
sympathy : condole
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Contravene
Definition
breach, break, violate, fracture, infringe, offend, traduce, transgress
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Culpable
Definition
blamable, censurable, blameworthy, reprehensible, reproachable
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Descry
Definition
ascertain, find, detect, determine, dig out, dig up, discover, dredge (up), ferret (out), find out, get, hit
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Disinter
Definition
exhume, unearth
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Elucidate
Definition
clarify, clear (up), construe, demonstrate, demystify, explain, explicate, expound, get across
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Equivocate
Definition
fudge, hedge, pussyfoot, tergiversate, waffle, weasel,
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Extenuate
Definition
deodorize, excuse, explain away, palliate, gloss (over), gloze (over), whitewash
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Flagging
Definition
languid, weak
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Gratuitous
Definition
essential, indispensable, necessary, needed, needful, required
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Impend
Definition
brew, loom, hover
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Incursion
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: descent, foray, raid, inroad, invasion, irruption
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Insipid
Definition
dead, flat, flavorless, savorless, tasteless, unsavory
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Inviolate
Definition
not violated or profaned; especially : pure
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Lucid
Definition
beaming, bedazzling, brilliant, candescent, clear, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glowing, incandescent
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Occlude
Definition
block, choke, clot, congest, dam, gum (up), jam, obstruct, clog, plug (up), stop (up), stuff
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Palpable
Definition
appreciable, apprehensible, detectable, discernible (also discernable), distinguishable, perceptible, sensible
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Pedantic
Definition
unimaginative, pedestrian
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Plaintive
Definition
aching, agonized, anguished, bemoaning, bewailing, bitter, deploring, doleful, dolesome, dolorous
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Probity
Definition
character, decency, goodness, honesty, integrity, morality, rectitude, righteousness, rightness
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Protract
Definition
drag (out), draw out, elongate, lengthen, outstretch, prolong, extend, stretch
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Recumbent
Definition
repose : leaning, resting
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Spurious
Definition
bogus, fake, false, forged, inauthentic, phony (also phoney), queer, sham, snide, counterfeit, unauthentic
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Tacit
Definition
implied, implicit, unexpressed, unspoken, unvoiced, wordless
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Vacillate
Definition
balance, dither, falter, halt, hang back, scruple, shilly-shally, stagger, teeter, hesitate, waver, wobble (also wabble)
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Waft
Definition
drift, glide, hang, hover, poise, ride, sail, swim, float
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