200 Words Every Twelfth Grader Should Know How to Spell: List 6

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  1. surveillance
    close observation of a person or group
  2. obnoxious
    causing disapproval or protest
  3. eccentricity
    strange and unconventional behavior
  4. tenacious
    stubbornly unyielding
  5. unerring
    always accurate or correct
  6. intuitive
    spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency
  7. delirious
    experiencing hallucinations
  8. resplendent
    having great beauty
  9. stereotype
    a conventional or formulaic conception or image
  10. divergent
    tending to move apart in different directions
  11. silhouette
    a filled-in drawing of the outline of an object
  12. jargon
    technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
  13. cognizant
    having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization
  14. lobbyist
    someone who is employed to persuade how legislators vote
  15. stagnant
    not growing or changing; without force or vitality
Created on Mon Jun 09 15:36:58 EDT 2025

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