200 Words Every Eleventh Grader Should Know How to Spell: List 14

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  1. prosciutto
    Italian salt-cured ham usually sliced paper thin
  2. dichotomous
    divided into two sharply distinguished parts
  3. clerihew
    a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets
  4. deracinate
    pull up by or as if by the roots
  5. lagniappe
    a small gift given by a merchant to a customer
  6. chiffonade
    a preparation of finely shredded vegetables or herbs
  7. kinesiology
    the study of the mechanics and anatomy of human movement
  8. syzygy
    the straight line configuration of three celestial bodies
  9. agrestic
    characteristic of the fields or country
  10. abecedarian
    alphabetically arranged, as for beginning readers
Created on Thu Jun 05 14:45:15 EDT 2025 (updated Mon Jun 09 15:25:37 EDT 2025)

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