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11th Grade
09/11/2010
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Titivate
 Definition
If used with an object - To make smart or spruce. (She titivated her old dress with a new belt)

Without an object - To make oneself smart or spruce. (She went to the powder room to titivate)
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Superlative
 Definition
Of the highest kind, quality, or order (Einstein had superlative intelligence)

being more than is proper or normal; exaggerated in language or style.

Grammar . of, pertaining to, or noting the highest degree of the comparison of adjectives and adverbs, as smallest, best, and most carefully, the superlative forms of small, good, and carefully. (Easier - The bestestest of any word)
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Esurient
 Definition
Hungry, greedy.
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Puissant
 Definition
Powerful; mighty; potent.
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