Essential Ninth Grade Vocabulary: List 6

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  1. politic
    marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness
  2. appalled
    struck with dread, shock, or dismay
  3. callous
    emotionally hardened
  4. proficient
    having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
  5. irrevocable
    incapable of being retracted
  6. immaculate
    completely neat and clean
  7. discordant
    not in agreement or harmony
  8. insidious
    working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
  9. reverberate
    ring or echo with sound
  10. equitable
    fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience
  11. avid
    marked by active interest and enthusiasm
  12. cognizant
    having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization
  13. allocate
    distribute according to a plan or set apart for a purpose
  14. rectify
    make right or correct
  15. archaic
    so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
Created on Tue Jun 03 18:44:06 EDT 2025 (updated Tue Jun 03 18:46:20 EDT 2025)

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