200 Words Every 12th Grader Should Know How to Spell: List 8

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  1. anachronistic
    chronologically misplaced
  2. cacophonous
    having an unpleasant sound
  3. camaraderie
    the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability
  4. circuitous
    deviating from a straight course
  5. deleterious
    harmful to living things
  6. demagogue
    a leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions
  7. extemporaneous
    with little or no preparation or forethought
  8. hackneyed
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  9. infinitesimal
    immeasurably small
  10. iridescent
    varying in color when seen in different lights
  11. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  12. maladroit
    not quick or skillful in action or thought
  13. miscellaneous
    having many aspects
  14. ostentatious
    intended to attract notice and impress others
  15. plagiarism
    taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own
  16. precocious
    characterized by exceptionally early development
  17. resplendent
    having great beauty
  18. surreptitious
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
  19. vernacular
    the everyday speech of the people
  20. vociferous
    conspicuously and offensively loud
Created on Wed Aug 23 13:56:11 EDT 2023 (updated Wed Aug 30 13:38:42 EDT 2023)

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