10 Honors Vocabulary Practice

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  • mawkish
  • melee
  • obsequious
  • pertinent (to)
  • scintillate
  • tentative
  • vindicate
  • vindictive
  • antipathy (to)
  • bleak
  • colloquial
  • conciliate
  • consummate [adj (1, 2), verb]
  • enigma, enigmatic
  • enjoin
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  • penurious
  • querulous
  • radical
  • sanction (n, v)
  • tawdry
  • alleviate
  • bellicose
  • choleric
  • depraved
  • felicitate (felicitations)
  • impassive
  • passive
  • languor
  • languish
  • lugubrious
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  • mediate (between)
  • nullify
  • pedantic, pedant
  • realism, realistic
  • scurrilous
  • tirade
  • virulent
  • wary
  • apropos (of)
  • bombastic
  • compatible, incompatible (with)
  • connotation, connote
  • enhance
  • envisage
  • epigram, epigrammatic
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  • aesthetic
  • bask
  • censorious
  • censor (n, v)
  • denouement
  • elucidate (1, 2)
  • enervate
  • fantastic, fantasy
  • generalization
  • lacerate
  • maudlin
  • noxious(1, 2)
  • parsimonious
  • parvenu
  • perfidious
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  • perfunctory
  • rabid
  • salutary
  • satirical
  • temporize
  • altercation
  • blasé
  • coerce
  • depredation
  • burgeon
  • fetish
  • ignominious
  • imperturbable
  • limpid
  • lyrical
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  • culpable
  • cursory
  • extemporize
  • grandiose
  • insipid
  • interpolate (into)
  • melodramatic
  • promulgate
  • prosaic, prosy
  • retrospect
  • revile
  • stereotyped
  • subservient (to)
  • tryst
  • ubiquitous
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  • covert (adj)
  • cryptic
  • dormant
  • expatriate (adj)
  • flout
  • inexorable
  • innuendo
  • misnomer
  • primeval
  • proffer
  • refractory, fractious
  • sonorous
  • stamina
  • tirade
  • vitiate
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  • assuage
  • corroborate
  • differentiate (between)
  • equanimity
  • flair
  • inarticulate (adj)
  • indigenous (to)
  • misanthropic, misanthrope
  • obtrusive
  • picayune (adj)
  • precocious
  • redoubtable
  • senile
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  • acrid
  • celibate, celibacy
  • distraught (distrait)
  • fetid
  • incontrovertible
  • martinet
  • opportunist
  • prolix
  • rococo
  • supine
  • adventitious
  • circumspect
  • dynamic
  • fulminate (against)
  • ineffable
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  • acrimonious
  • charlatan
  • dogma, dogmatize, dogmatic
  • fiat
  • inconsequential
  • mellifluous
  • orthodox
  • proselyte (n, v)
  • ruminate (upon)
  • agnostic
  • clandestine
  • effrontery
  • germane
  • inept
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  • adamant
  • circumlocution
  • dual
  • forthright
  • incubus, succubus
  • mendicant
  • opprobrious, opprobrium
  • prototype
  • salient (adj)
  • analogous
  • analogy
  • cogent
  • effusion, effusive
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  • ingenuous, disingenuous
  • ossify
  • pulsate (with)
  • sardonic
  • sybarite
  • animadversion
  • collusion
  • egoist, egotist, egotistical
  • gormandize
  • inherent (in)
  • meticulous
  • parasite
  • quixotic
  • secular
  • tantamount (to)
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  • mercurial
  • meretricious
  • palpable
  • pungent
  • satiate, sate
  • sycophant
  • commensurate (with)
  • egregious
  • grandiloquent
  • inhibition, inhibit
  • militate (against)
  • pariah
  • sensibility
  • temerity
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  • aplomb
  • articulate, inarticulate (adj)
  • enormity
  • hallucinations
  • insular
  • moribund
  • peccadillo
  • rampant
  • sensuous
  • tenet
  • ascendancy
  • crux
  • equivocate (equivocal)
  • heterogeneous
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  • apostate, apostasy
  • cosmic
  • epitomize, epitome
  • hapless
  • insouciance
  • naïve
  • peremptory
  • rancor
  • sententious
  • traduce
  • ascetic
  • decadent
  • erudite
  • hiatus