200 Words Every Tenth Grader Should Know How to Spell: List 5

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  1. congenial
    suitable to your needs
  2. facilitate
    make easier
  3. counterpart
    a person or thing having the same function as another
  4. beget
    have children
  5. evaporate
    change into gas or steam
  6. elite
    a group or class of persons enjoying superior status
  7. despotism
    dominance through threat of punishment and violence
  8. ambiguous
    having more than one possible meaning
  9. repugnant
    offensive to the mind
  10. demeanor
    the way a person behaves toward other people
  11. encroach
    advance beyond the usual limit
  12. bequeath
    leave or give, especially by will after one's death
  13. bulwark
    an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
  14. brazen
    not held back by conventional ideas of behavior
  15. durable
    existing for a long time
Created on Wed Jun 04 17:54:08 EDT 2025 (updated Fri Jul 11 10:51:05 EDT 2025)

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