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| 11th Grade Worksheets of Dehcho, NT, Canada | 
 
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ablution  | n. washing or cleansing of the body, especially as part of religious rite  |  
 abnegation  | n. repudiation; self-sacrifice; renouncing your own interests in favor of interests of others  |  
 abomasum  | n. the fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the one where digestion takes place  |  
 abstemious  | a. sparing or moderation in eating and drinking; temperate  |  
 accretion  | n. growth or increase in size by gradual external addition, fusion, or inclusion  |  
 acolyte  | n. someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches  |  
 alopecia  | n. loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers; in humans it can result from heredity or hormonal imbalance or certain diseases or drugs and treatments (chemotherapy for cancer)  |  
 anneal  | v. bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling  |  
 asseverate  | v. state categorically  |  
 bilious  | a. suffering from indigestion; appearing as if affected by disorder; sickly  |  
 braggadocio  | n. vain and empty boasting  |  
 bulbul  | n. nightingale spoken of in Persian poetry  |  
 camaraderie  | n. good-fellowship; companionship; close friendship in friends or teammates  |  
 campanile  | n. a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building  |  
 catachresis  | n. strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')  |  
 chimerical  | a. fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; imaginative  |  
 clerihew  | n. a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person  |  
 concessionaire  | n. someone who holds or operates a concession  |  
 concurrence  | n. a state of cooperation;  agreement of results or opinions; acting together  |  
 denigrate  | v. blacken; defame; attack reputation of; degrade  |  
 deracinate  | v. pull up by or as if by the roots  |  
 ecclesiastic  | n. minister or priest; cleric; one holding an office in the Christian ministry  |  
 egregious  | a. notorious; conspicuously bad or shocking  |  
 elegy  | n. poem or song expressing lamentation;  mournful poem  |  
 frangipani  | n. any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant funnel-shaped variously colored flowers  |  
 grandiloquence  | n. high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation  |  
 imbroglio  | n. a very embarrassing misunderstanding  |  
 impecunious  | a. without money; poor; penniless  |  
 implacable  | a. incapable of being pacified; not to be relieved;  |  
 incarnadine  | a. red, especially blood red; of blood red color of raw flesh  |  
 interlocutor  | n. one who speaks in dialogue or takes part in conversation  |  
 lyceum  | n. a public hall for lectures and concerts  |  
 magniloquent  | a. lofty in style  |  
 minatory  | a. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments  |  
 monomania  | n. a mania restricted to one thing or idea  |  
 moribund  | a. dying; in dying state; approaching death; about to die  |  
 multifarious  | a. varied; greatly diversified; made up of many differing parts  |  
 munificence  | n. liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit  |  
 nauseous  | a. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit  |  
 noisome  | a. foul-smelling; offensive by arousing disgust; harmful or dangerous  |  
 obstreperous  | a. noisily aggressive; making great noise or outcry  |  
 pellucid  | a. transparent; limpid; easy to understand  |  
 persiflage  | n. light teasing  |  
 physiognomy  | n. the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)  |  
 portmanteau  | n. a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings  |  
 punctilious  | a. marked by precise accordance with details  |  
 risibility  | n. a disposition to laugh  |  
 rubicund  | a. inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life  |  
 simulacrum  | n. an insubstantial or vague semblance  |  
 vituperate  | v. spread negative information about  |  
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