200 Words Every Twelfth Grader Should Know How to Spell: List 13

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  1. truculence
    stubborn and defiant aggressiveness
  2. narcissistic
    having an inflated idea of one's own importance
  3. apothegm
    a short pithy instructive saying
  4. impermeable
    preventing especially liquids to pass or diffuse through
  5. eleemosynary
    generous in assistance to the poor
  6. consanguineous
    related by blood
  7. maladroit
    not quick or skillful in action or thought
  8. ineluctable
    impossible to avoid or evade
  9. dystopia
    state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad
  10. cacophonous
    having an unpleasant sound
Created on Mon Jun 09 15:46:21 EDT 2025

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