Wordly Wise 3000-Book 9-Lesson 8

Dee B. (United States of America)
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  1. adroit
    quick or skillful or adept in action or thought
  2. affront
    a deliberately offensive act
  3. avocation
    an auxiliary activity
  4. crusade
    a series of actions tending toward a particular end
  5. definitive
    supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement
  6. demeanor
    the way a person behaves toward other people
  7. erudite
    having or showing profound knowledge
  8. induct
    place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position
  9. lapse
    drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
  10. militant
    showing a fighting disposition
  11. pariah
    a person who is rejected from society or home
  12. prodigy
    an unusually gifted or intelligent person
  13. protege
    a person who receives support from an influential patron
  14. protegee
    a woman protege
  15. raucous
    unpleasantly loud and harsh
  16. raucous
    disturbing the public peace; loud and rough
  17. tacit
    implied by or inferred from actions or statements
Created on Thu Dec 12 13:52:28 EST 2013 (updated Thu Dec 12 13:52:42 EST 2013)

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