200 Words Every 10th Grader Should Know How to Spell: List 5

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  1. abhor
    feel hatred or disgust toward
  2. ambiguous
    having more than one possible meaning
  3. ascertain
    learn or discover with confidence
  4. azure
    bright blue in color, like a clear sky
  5. ballad
    a narrative poem of popular origin
  6. beget
    have children
  7. bequeath
    leave or give, especially by will after one's death
  8. carcinogen
    any substance that produces cancer
  9. coagulate
    change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state
  10. contingent
    determined by conditions or circumstances that follow
  11. debacle
    a sudden and complete disaster
  12. desist
    stop performing some action
  13. dissertation
    a treatise advancing a point of view resulting from research
  14. distraught
    deeply agitated especially from emotion
  15. emigrant
    someone who leaves one country to settle in another
  16. euphoria
    a feeling of great elation
  17. glut
    supply with an excess of
  18. gnarled
    old and twisted and covered in lines
  19. opportune
    suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose
  20. proficient
    having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
Created on Wed Aug 30 14:34:11 EDT 2023 (updated Wed Aug 30 14:41:24 EDT 2023)

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