200 Words Every 12th Grader Should Know How to Spell: List 10

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  1. acquiescence
    agreement with a statement or proposal to do something
  2. antipyretic
    preventing or alleviating fever
  3. chauffeur
    drive someone in a vehicle
  4. coiffure
    the arrangement of the hair
  5. consanguineous
    related by blood
  6. desuetude
    a state of inactivity or disuse
  7. dystopia
    state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad
  8. ebullient
    joyously unrestrained
  9. eccentricity
    strange and unconventional behavior
  10. eleemosynary
    generous in assistance to the poor
  11. etiquette
    rules governing socially acceptable behavior
  12. ineluctable
    impossible to avoid or evade
  13. insouciance
    a casual or lighthearted feeling of unconcern
  14. jodhpurs
    flared pants ending at the calves and worn with riding boots
  15. paraphernalia
    equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles
  16. pulchritudinous
    having great physical beauty
  17. raconteur
    a person skilled in telling anecdotes
  18. surveillance
    close observation of a person or group
  19. synecdoche
    using part of something to refer to the whole thing
  20. truculence
    stubborn and defiant aggressiveness
Created on Wed Aug 23 14:15:25 EDT 2023 (updated Wed Aug 30 13:38:58 EDT 2023)

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