200 Words Every 10th Grader Should Know How to Spell: List 10

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  1. avocation
    an auxiliary activity
  2. biennial
    occurring every second year
  3. eclectic
    selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas
  4. encyclical
    a letter from the pope sent to all Roman Catholic bishops throughout the world
  5. exacerbate
    make worse
  6. Fahrenheit
    of or relating to a temperature scale proposed by the inventor of the mercury thermometer
  7. fortuitous
    lucky; occurring by happy chance
  8. ignominy
    a state of dishonor
  9. imperturbable
    marked by extreme calm and composure
  10. lederhosen
    leather shorts often worn with suspenders
  11. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  12. lucre
    informal terms for money
  13. neophyte
    a participant with no experience with an activity
  14. panacea
    hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases
  15. patois
    a regional dialect of a language
  16. pertinacious
    stubbornly unyielding
  17. surreptitiously
    in a secretive manner
  18. sycophantic
    attempting to win favor by flattery
  19. tripartite
    involving three parties or elements
  20. zoophyte
    any of various invertebrate animals resembling a plant such as a sea anemone or coral or sponge
Created on Wed Aug 30 14:37:57 EDT 2023 (updated Wed Aug 30 14:39:14 EDT 2023)

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