Essential Eleventh Grade Vocabulary: List 2

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  1. admonish
    scold or reprimand; take to task
  2. pretext
    a fictitious reason that conceals the real reason
  3. precept
    a rule of personal conduct
  4. felicity
    pleasing and appropriate manner or style
  5. superfluous
    more than is needed, desired, or required
  6. approbation
    official acceptance or agreement
  7. enmity
    a state of deep-seated ill-will
  8. indolent
    disinclined to work or exertion
  9. gilded
    made from or covered with gold
  10. compulsory
    required by rule
  11. avarice
    reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
  12. edict
    a formal or authoritative proclamation
  13. consign
    give over to another for care or safekeeping
  14. plaintive
    expressing sorrow
  15. visage
    the human face
Created on Thu Jun 05 14:14:53 EDT 2025

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