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Words of Wisdom: Vocabulary Definitions

Expand your vocabulary with tested definitions! Learn the meanings of words like "apotheosis" and "grandiloquent." Impress others with your eloquence and inculcate these words into your lexicon.

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Words of Wisdom: Vocabulary Definitions

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  1. CP12 Vocabulary 6 Tested Definitions

  2. Apotheosis • Elevation to divine status; deification • Bastion • Protecting part of a fortification; thing regarded as protecting • Bucolic • Of shepherds; rustic, pastoral • Chutzpah • Brashness, audacity • Conflagration • A great and destructive fire

  3. Contretemps • Unfortunate and embarrassing encounter or occurrence • Debacle • Utter defeat, collapse, or chaos • Disparage • Criticize; belittle • Elocution • Art of clear and expressive speech • Exult • Be joyful

  4. Fiat • Authorization; decree (so let it be written, so let it be done) • Grandiloquent • Pompous or inflated in language • Harbinger • Person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another; forerunner • Inculcate • Urge or impress persistently

  5. Machination • Intrigue • Misanthrope • Person who hates or avoids human company • Pejorative • Derogatory; derogatory word • Prodigious • Marvelous or amazing; enormous • Ribald • Coarsely or disrespectfully humorous; obsecne

  6. Trenchant • Incisive; terse, rigorous

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