Junior Vocabulary Week 2

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Epithet

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Any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality

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Evasive

Back 2

Tending or seeking to evade

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Evoke

Back 3

To call up or produce (memories, feelings, etc.)

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Exacting

Back 4

Rigid or severe in demands or requirements

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Foreshadow

Back 5

To show or indicate beforehand

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Infer

Back 6

To derive by reasoning

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Laudable

Back 7

Deserving praise

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Lucid

Back 8

Easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible

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Scrutinize

Back 9

To examine in detail with careful or critical attention

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Symposium

Back 10

A meeting or conference for the discussion of some subject, especially a meeting at which several speakers talk on or discuss a topic before an audience

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Affluent

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Having an abundance of wealth, property, or other material goods

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Brevity

Back 12

Shortness of time or duration

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Connotation

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The associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning

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Embellish

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To beautify by or as if by ornamentation

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Imbibe

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To consume (liquids) by drinking

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Nostalgic

Back 16

Experiencing or exhibiting nostalgia, a sentimental or wistful yearning for the happiness felt in a former place, time, or situation

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Novice

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A person who is new to the circumstances, work, etc. in which he or she is placed

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Philistine

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A person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual persuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes; boorish

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Reiterate

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To say or do again or repeatedly

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Stipend

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A periodic payment, especially a scholorship or fellowship allowance granted to a student