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| power words (9/3) | words that high school teachers across the USA said that students entering HS should have already mastered or will encounter their first HS year |
| accentuate (9/4) | (transitive verb) 1)to give prominence to, emphasize, or intensify; 2)to pronounce with a stress or accent; 3)to mark with an accent mark |
| alliteration (9/5) | (noun) 1)the repetition of the same sounds, usually consonants or consonant blends, especially at the beginning of words; often used in poetry |
| analogy (9/6) | (noun) 1)similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise unlike; 2) an explanation of something by comparing it with something similar |
| antibody (9/7) | (noun) 1) a protein produced in the blood or tissues in response to the presence of a specific toxin, foreign blood cell, or other antigen; provide immunity |
| aspire (9/10) | (transitive verb) 1) to have a great ambition; desire strongly |
| bamboozle (9/11) | (transitive verb, informal) 1) to deceive by elaborate trickery; hoodwink |
| bizarre (9/12) | (adj.) 1)very strange or odd |
| boisterous (9/13) | (adj.) 1)rough & stormy; violent; 2)noisy & lacking in restraint or discipline |
| boycott (9/14) | (as transitive verb): 1)to act together in refusing to use, buy from, deal with, especially in an expression of protest; (as a noun): 1)a refusal to buy from or deal with a person, business, or nation, especially in the form of protest; 2)a refusal to buy or use a product/service |