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

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  1. prevaricate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  2. sinecure
    a job that involves minimal duties
  3. existential
    relating to or dealing with the state of being
  4. egotistical
    having an inflated idea of one's own importance
  5. supine
    lying face upward
  6. patois
    a regional dialect of a language
  7. antagonize
    provoke the hostility of
  8. fractious
    easily irritated or annoyed
  9. aspersion
    a disparaging remark
  10. modicum
    a small or moderate or token amount
  11. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  12. panacea
    hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases
  13. parallelogram
    a quadrilateral whose opposite sides are parallel and equal
  14. cohesive
    combining well to form a unified whole
  15. euphoria
    a feeling of great elation
Created on Wed Jun 04 17:56:15 EDT 2025 (updated Fri Jul 11 10:52:17 EDT 2025)

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