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Java Games: Flashcards, matching, concentration, and word search. |
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vocab level g, 7 and 8
unit seven and eight
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| Allay | To calm or pacify |
| Bestial | Beastlike, Brutal |
| Convivial | Festive, sociable |
| Coterie | Clique, set of friends |
| Counterpart | A complement or match |
| Demur | To object to or protest |
| Effrontery | Shameless boldness, Nerve |
| Embellish | To Decorate |
| Ephemeral | Short-lived, lasting a short time. |
| Felicitous | Apropriate, well chosen |
| Furtive | Sneakey, sly |
| Garish | Overdone in an offensive way |
| Illusory | Misleading, deceptive |
| Indigent | Needy, Impovershed |
| Inordinate | Far tooo great, Extravegent |
| Jettison | To cast overboard, to rid of things that are unnessasary |
| Misanthrope | People hater |
| Pertinacious | Very persistant, stubborn |
| Picayune | Of little value or importance. |
| Raiment | Clothing, attire |
| allege | claim |
| arrant | thoroughgoing |
| badinage | light and playful |
| conciliate | win over, pacify |
| countermand | to cancel or recall |
| echelon | level, rank |
| exacerbate | to make more violent |
| fatuous | stupid or foolish |
| irrefutable | impossible to disprove |
| juggernaut | a massive and inescapable force |
| lackadaisical | lacking spirit of interest |
| litany | a repetitive chant |
| macabre | grisly, gruesome, horrible |
| paucity | an inadequate quantity |
| portend | to give advance warning of |
| raze | to tear down, destroy |
| recant | to withdraw a statement, renounce |
| saturate | to soak thoroughly, fill to capacityl |
| saturnine | cold or sluggish in mood |
| slough | to cast off, discard, to get rid of |
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Learning Strategies IV Teacher, The Drexel Program |
Monsignor Bonner/Archbishop Prendergast High School |
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