Wordly Wise Grade 8 Lesson 10

Mrs. Dare (United States of America)
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  1. abject
    of the most contemptible kind
  2. advocate
    a person who pleads for a person, cause, or idea
  3. atrocity
    an act of shocking cruelty
  4. commemorate
    call to remembrance
  5. dialect
    the usage or vocabulary characteristic of a group of people
  6. dire
    fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
  7. elite
    a group or class of persons enjoying superior status
  8. enhance
    increase
  9. flagrant
    conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
  10. languish
    become feeble
  11. mute
    expressed without speech
  12. raze
    tear down so as to make flat with the ground
  13. reprisal
    a retaliatory action against an enemy
  14. turmoil
    a violent disturbance
  15. wreak
    cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
Created on Mon Nov 18 11:15:02 EST 2013 (updated Mon Nov 18 11:26:50 EST 2013)

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