Essential Eleventh Grade Vocabulary: List 4

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  1. elicit
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
  2. guile
    shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
  3. allay
    lessen the intensity of or calm
  4. fastidious
    giving careful attention to detail
  5. accost
    approach and speak to someone aggressively or insistently
  6. demure
    shy or modest, often in a playful or provocative way
  7. spurn
    reject with contempt
  8. pallor
    an unnatural lack of color in the skin
  9. auspicious
    indicating favorable circumstances and good luck
  10. derision
    the act of treating with contempt
  11. reproof
    an act or expression of criticism and censure
  12. implacable
    incapable of being appeased or pacified
  13. expostulate
    reason with for the purpose of dissuasion
  14. lurid
    glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
  15. goad
    stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick
Created on Thu Jun 05 14:15:28 EDT 2025

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