200 Words Every Eleventh Grader Should Know How to Spell: List 3

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  1. listless
    lacking zest or vivacity
  2. obliterate
    remove completely from recognition or memory
  3. chastise
    scold or criticize severely
  4. affinity
    a natural attraction or feeling of kinship
  5. aesthetic
    characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste
  6. incite
    provoke or stir up
  7. deprecate
    express strong disapproval of; deplore
  8. copious
    large in number or quantity
  9. ponderous
    having great mass and weight and unwieldiness
  10. austerity
    excessive sternness
  11. proximity
    the property of being close together
  12. ignominy
    a state of dishonor
  13. incongruous
    lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness
  14. arduous
    characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion
  15. anomaly
    deviation from the normal or common order, form, or rule
Created on Thu Jun 05 14:41:34 EDT 2025 (updated Mon Jun 09 15:17:45 EDT 2025)

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