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Senior Midterm Vocabulary Help
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| brackish | unpleasant to drink |
| jettison | throw off; cast overboard |
| garner | get; acquire; earn |
| complicity | be involved in crime |
| indictment | charge or accusation |
| eschew | shun |
| mundane | boring; common |
| pertinacious | persistent |
| glean | gather bit by bit |
| dissemble | disguise or conceal |
| celerity | swiftness of motion or action |
| picayune | trivial |
| surveillance | close watch or attention |
| nuance | subtle difference |
| grouse | complain |
| articulate | speak clearly |
| sumptuous | lavish |
| allay | lessen or relieve |
| esoteric | understood by only a small group |
| germane | relevant |
| mordant | biting or caustic |
| inordinate | excessive |
| covenant | agreement |
| undulate | move in wavelike motion |
| nefarious | wicked or villanous |
| gambit | move of chance |
| sylvan | forest like |
| temporize | stall to gain advantage |
| delineated | describe with precision; list |
| talisman | good luck charm |
| taciturn | untalkative |
| accosted | approached with a demand or request |
| intransigent | unmoveable |
| insatiable | not able to be satisfied |
| belabor | repeat or work excessively |
| bastion | stronghold |
| incarcerate | imprison |
| tenable | able to be held |
| diatribe | rant; rage; harangue |
| ludicrous | ridiculous |
| exigency | urgency |
| depraved | corrupted |
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