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

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  1. elucidate
    make clear and comprehensible
  2. discernible
    perceptible by the senses or intellect
  3. despicable
    morally reprehensible
  4. confiscation
    seizure by the government
  5. virulent
    extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
  6. discrepancy
    a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
  7. dissertation
    a treatise advancing a point of view resulting from research
  8. anathema
    a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
  9. critique
    appraise or judge in an analytical way
  10. dissident
    a person who objects to some established policy
  11. foray
    a sudden short attack
  12. barrage
    the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area
  13. desecrate
    violate the sacred character of a place or language
  14. assay
    a test of a substance to determine its components
  15. neurosis
    a mental illness that makes you behave in an unusual way
Created on Wed Jun 04 17:55:02 EDT 2025 (updated Fri Jul 11 10:51:35 EDT 2025)

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