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

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  1. poignancy
    a quality that arouses emotions, especially pity or sorrow
  2. convergence
    the act of coming closer
  3. abstemious
    marked by temperance in indulgence
  4. maelstrom
    a powerful circular current of water
  5. incontrovertible
    impossible to deny or disprove
  6. ebullient
    joyously unrestrained
  7. zealot
    a fervent and even militant proponent of something
  8. deleterious
    harmful to living things
  9. camaraderie
    the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability
  10. denouement
    the outcome of a complex sequence of events
  11. antediluvian
    of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
  12. paean
    a hymn of praise
  13. coiffure
    the arrangement of the hair
  14. inconsequential
    lacking worth or importance
  15. clientele
    customers collectively
Created on Mon Jun 09 15:39:32 EDT 2025

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