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Vocabulary 10

Vocabulary 10. Using Context Clues. Beguile. Cheat, distract, trick, con; to deceive by trickery. Demure. Modest, bashful, retiring; reserved in manner. Equanimity. Poise, balance; being calm and even-tempered. Fortitude.

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Vocabulary 10

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  1. Vocabulary 10 Using Context Clues

  2. Beguile • Cheat, distract, trick, con; to deceive by trickery

  3. Demure • Modest, bashful, retiring; reserved in manner

  4. Equanimity • Poise, balance; being calm and even-tempered

  5. Fortitude • Mental toughness, guts, grit, bravery, courage, valor; strength of mind

  6. Hidebound • Prejudiced, set in one’s ways, close-minded; stubbornly inflexible

  7. Laud • Approve, commend, acclaim, worship; glorify

  8. Obscurity • Darkness, uncertainty, indistinctness, dimness, fuzziness; quality of being imperfectly known

  9. Resilient • Elastic, recuperative; able to recover quickly

  10. Sagacious • Prudent, farsighted, shrewd, clever, smart; having good judgment; wise

  11. Tumult • Upset, riot, agitation, chaos, disorder; disturbance

  12. Vocabulary 11 Using Multiple-Meaning Words

  13. Abhor • To hate intensely; despise; loathe

  14. Candor • Frankness, honesty; sincerity

  15. Dauntless • Fearless, courageous; bold

  16. Insinuation • Indirect suggestion, often negative; hint

  17. Pall • Something that covers, especially with gloom or darkness; shroud

  18. Patronize • To act with condescension; to give suuport

  19. Suppress • To put an end to; stop; cease

  20. Tentative • Experimental, hesitant; unsure

  21. Tribulation • Suffering or trial; hardship

  22. Volatile • Sharply changeable; unsteady

  23. Vocabulary 12 Prefixes Meaning “For” and “Against”

  24. Antibiotic • Drug like penicillin that destroys germs; drug with capacity to destroy bacteria

  25. Antipathy • Strong feeling of aversion or dislike; basic or habitual repugnance

  26. Antithesis • Opposite of a stated idea; opposition; contrast; the direct opposite

  27. Contraband • Smuggled goods, goods not allowed to be imported; anything prohibited by law from being imported or exported; illegal goods

  28. Contradictory • Expressing the opposite; asserts the contrary or opposite of; denying directly or categorically

  29. Counterweight • Force opposed equally to another; weight that equals or balances another; counterpoise

  30. Obstruct • Hinder, block, get in the way of; to block or close up with an obstacle; to interrupt the passage, progress, or course

  31. Obtrude • Intrude, force oneself or one’s opinion on others; to thrust something forward or upon a person without invitation; to thrust forth; push out

  32. Oppugn • Oppose, call into question; to assail by criticism, argument, or action; dispute

  33. Proponent • One who argues in support of something; person who puts forward a proposition or proposal; one who supports a cause or doctrine

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