80 Midterm Vocabulary Words

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Plaudits

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Applause; enthusiastic praise or approval

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Excerpt

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A passage taken from a book, article, etc..

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Laggard

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A person who moves slowly or falls behind

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Revert

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To return, go back

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Discordant

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Disagreeable in sound, jarring; lacking in harmony, conflicting

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Vigil

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A watch, especially at night; any period of watchful attention

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Churlish

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Lacking politeness or good manners; lacking sensitivity; difficult to work with or deal with; rude

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Collaborate

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To work with, work together

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Grope

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To feel about hesistantly with the hands; to search bindly and uncertainly

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Bonanza

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A rich mass of ore in a mine; something very valuable, profitable, or rewarding; a source of wealth or prosperity; a very large amount; sudden profit or gain

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Antics

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Ridiculous and unpredictable behavior or actions

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Incognito

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In a disguised state, under an assumed name or identity

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Frugal

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Economical, avoiding waste and luxury; scanty, poor, meager

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Congested

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Overcrowded, filled or occupied to excess

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Durable

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Sturdy, not easily worn out or destroyedl lasting for a long time; consumer goods used repeatedly over a series of years

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Maim

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To cripple, disable, injure, mar, disfigure, mutilate

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Glut

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To provide more than is needed or wanted; to feed or fill to the point of overstuffing

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Avowed

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Declared openly and without shame, acknowledged

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Invalidiate

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To make valueless, take away all force or effect

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Minimize

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To make as small as possible, make the least of; to make smaller than before

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Longetivity

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Long life, long duration, length of life

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Elite

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The choice part of a group of people or things

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Devoid

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Not having or using, lacking

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Relevant

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Connected with or related to the matter at hand

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Audacious

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Bold, adventurous, recklessly daring

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Unison

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A sounding together; agreement or accord

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Instigate

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To urge on; to stir up, provoke, start, incite

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Skittish

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Extremely nervous and easily frightened; shy or timid; extremly cautious; unstable, undependable

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Vie

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To compete, to strive for victory or superiority

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Willful

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Stubbornly self-willed; done on purpose, deliberate

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Blasé

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Indifferent, bored as a result of having enjoyed many pleasures; apathetic

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Frivolous

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Of little importance, not worthy of serious attention; not meant seriously

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Muster

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To bring together for service or battle; to gather or summon; to amount to, comprise, include

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Oust

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To remove, drive out of a position or place

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Peruse

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To read thouroghly and carefully

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Prone

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Lying face down; inclined, lkely

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Prone

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Lying face down; inclined, lkely

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Residue

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A remainder, that which remains when a part has been used up or removed

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Qualm

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A pang of conscience, uneasiness, misgiving, or doubt; a feeling of faintness or nausea

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Staid

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Serious and dignified; quiet or subdued in character or conduct

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Solicitious

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Showing concern or care; fearful or anxious about somoene or something

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Ample

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More than enough, large, spacious

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Facetious

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Humorous, not meant seriously

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Ethical

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Having do to with morals, values, right and wrong; in accordance with standards of right conduct; requiring a prescription for purchase

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Epitaph

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A brief staement written on a tomb or gravestone

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Intrigue

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Crafty dealings, underhanded plotting

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Apparition

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A ghost or ghostly figure; an unexplained or unusual appearance

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Plebian

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Common, vulgar; belonging to the lower class

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Inaudible

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Not able to be heard

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Indiscriminate

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Without restraint or control; unselective

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Sequel

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That which follows, a result; a literary work or fim continuing the story of one written or made earlier

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Aloof

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Withdrawn, standing apart from others (usually as a matter of choice)

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Anguish

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Great mental suffering, distress, or pain

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Articulate

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To pronounce distictly; to express well in words; to fit together into a system

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Premonition

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Forewarning or foreboding of a future event

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Pseudonym

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A pen name, name assurned by a writer

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Purge

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To wash away impurites, clean up

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Repercussion

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An effect or concequence of some action or event, result; an echo or reverberation

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Rehabilitate

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To make over in good form; to restore to good condition or to a former position

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Retentive

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Able to hold, keep, or recall; retaining knowlege easily

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Scapegoat

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A person or thing carrying the blame for others

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Parry

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To ward off, fend off, deflect, evade, avoid

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Turncoat

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A person who switches to an opposing side or party

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Haggard

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Thin, pale, and careworn as a result of worry or suffering; wild- looking

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Belittle

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To make something appear smaller that it is; to refer to in a way that suggests lack of importance or value

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Tawdry

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Showy and flashy but lacking in good taste

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Acme

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The highest point

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Menial

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Lowly, humble, lacking importance or dignity

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Ravage

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To destroy, lay waste, ruin

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Stance

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A way of holding the body; an attitude or position on an issue

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Wallow

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To roll about in a lazy, clumsy, or helpless way; to overindulge in; to have in abundance

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Attire

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Clothes, apparel, garb

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Crony

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A very close friend, pal, chum, buddy

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Cryptic

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Puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic

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Divergent

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Going in different directions; different from each other; departing from convention, deviant

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Enmity

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Hatred, ill-will

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Gaunt

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Thin and bony, starved looking; bare, barren

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Nullify

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To make of no value or concequence, cancel, wipe out

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Rankle

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To cause anger, irritation, or bitterness (with suggestion that the pain grows worse with time)

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Stoical

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Self-controlled, not showing feeling in response to pleasure or pain

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Unflagging

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Tireless, continuing with vigor