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Vocabulary Enrichment: Definitions and Usage

Enhance your vocabulary with tested definitions of words like affectation, burgeon, and specious, along with examples of their usage. Learn to identify and utilize these words effectively in your writing and conversations.

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Vocabulary Enrichment: Definitions and Usage

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  1. CP12 Vocabulary 17 Tested Definitions

  2. Affectation • Artificial manner or behavior; pretense • Auspices • Patronage; omen; premonition • Burgeon • Grow rapidly; flourish • Curtail • Cut short; reduce • Distend • Swell out by pressure from within

  3. Emanate • Issue; originate • Exhume • Dig up • Meander • Wander at random; (of a stream) wind about • Nebulous • Cloudlike; indistinct; vague • Officious • Domineering; intrusive, meddlesome

  4. Pallor • Paleness • Pundit • Expert authority or commentator • Renounce • Formally abandon (a claim, right, etc.); repudiate, reject • Specious • Plausible but wrong • Subterfuge • Evasive or conspiratorial lying or deceit; statement, action, etc. used for such purposes

  5. Subversive • Seeing to subvert (especially a government); subversive person • Tantamount • Equivalent (to) • Usurp • Seize (power) wrongfully • Viable • Feasible; capable of developing and surviving outside the womb • Zealous • Full of zeal; enthusiastic

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