200 Words Every 12th Grader Should Know How to Spell: List 9

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  1. antediluvian
    of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
  2. apothegm
    a short pithy instructive saying
  3. bureaucracy
    a government administered primarily by nonelective officials
  4. clairvoyant
    someone who can perceive things not present to the senses
  5. coulomb
    a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second
  6. couturier
    someone who designs clothing
  7. incontrovertible
    impossible to deny or disprove
  8. intransigence
    stubborn refusal to compromise or change
  9. juggernaut
    a massive inexorable force
  10. lambaste
    censure severely or angrily
  11. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  12. perigee
    the nearest point in an orbit around the Earth
  13. poignancy
    a quality that arouses emotions, especially pity or sorrow
  14. pugnacious
    ready and able to resort to force or violence
  15. querulous
    habitually complaining
  16. recalcitrant
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  17. sanctimonious
    excessively or hypocritically pious
  18. silhouette
    a filled-in drawing of the outline of an object
  19. unctuous
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
  20. vaudeville
    a genre of variety show with songs, comic acts, etc.
Created on Wed Aug 23 14:15:01 EDT 2023 (updated Wed Aug 30 13:38:50 EDT 2023)

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