ISEE Vocab Words
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starflower17 on November 3, 2007
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 adage | old saying, proverb |
| affectation | pretension, shame, pose |
| aperture | opening |
| aqueous | watery, aquatic, liquid |
| cache | hiding place for treasures, stash |
| caprice | sudden, unpredictable change, impules, whim |
| contentious | eager to quarrel |
| dearth | scarcity, lack |
| delude | to deceive |
| deluge | flood |
| discursive | covering a wide area or digresing from a topic |
| disseminate | to scatter or spread widely |
| doff | to remove or take off |
| erudite | knowledgeable and learned |
| expunge | to delete or omit completely |
| gregarious | fond of company |
| magnanimous | noble, forgiving, patient, tolerant, unresentful |
| misbegotten | poorly conceived, poorly planned, based on false assumptions or reasoning |
| olfactory | relating to sense of smell |
| quell | overpower, quench |
| raze | destroy |
| repartee | witty conversation, retort |
| repudiate | to reject what one was once associated with |
| rout | conquer, defeat, and chase off |
| schism | division, break, conflict, clash |
| torrid | hot, parched, sizzling |
| wantonly | without a reason |
| circumscribe | to encircle with a line, limit, outline, bound |
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