Essential Ninth Grade Vocabulary: List 8

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  1. blatant
    without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious
  2. sporadic
    recurring in scattered or unpredictable instances
  3. omniscient
    knowing, seeing, or understanding everything
  4. defunct
    no longer in force or use; inactive
  5. apathetic
    showing little or no emotion or animation
  6. concurrent
    occurring or operating at the same time
  7. surreal
    characterized by fantastic and incongruous imagery
  8. proponent
    a person who argues for a cause or puts forward an idea
  9. nefarious
    extremely wicked
  10. exacerbate
    make worse
Created on Tue Jun 03 18:44:18 EDT 2025 (updated Tue Jun 03 18:46:59 EDT 2025)

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