200 Words Every Tenth Grader Should Know How to Spell: List 11

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  1. pertinacious
    stubbornly unyielding
  2. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  3. coagulate
    change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state
  4. vertigo
    a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall
  5. neophyte
    a participant with no experience with an activity
  6. begrudge
    be envious of or feel annoyance toward
  7. introspection
    contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct
  8. churlish
    having a bad disposition; surly
  9. hermetic
    completely sealed or airtight
  10. biennial
    occurring every second year
  11. vapid
    lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
  12. fetid
    offensively malodorous
  13. lucre
    informal terms for money
  14. abscond
    run away, often taking something or somebody along
  15. equivocate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
Created on Wed Jun 04 17:55:56 EDT 2025 (updated Fri Jul 11 10:52:08 EDT 2025)

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