9th Grade Vocabulary
Terms
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- admonish
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warn
praise - breach
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an opening/to break through
/close - brigand
- bandit
- circumspect
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careful
reckless - commandeer
- to take for military use
- cumbersom
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clumsy
manaeable - deadlock
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a standstill/to bring to such a standstill
agreement - debris
- wreckage
- diffuse
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to disperse/rambling
concentrate/brief - dilemma
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predicament
cinch - efface
- erase
- muddle
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to jumble/disorder
neatness - opinionated
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obstinate
reasonable - perennial
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persistant
brief - predispose
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make suceptible to
immunize against - relinquish
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surrender
keep - salvage
-
rescue
abandon - spasmodic
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irregular
steady - spurius
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false
genuine - unbridled
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uncontrolled
restrained - adjourn
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postpone
open - alien
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foreign
native - comely
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attrative
plain - compensate
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repay
stiff - dissolute
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immoral
moral - erratic
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irregular
steady - expulsion
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eviction
admittance - feint
- trick/to trick
- fodder
- food for horse or cattle
- fortify
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to strengthen
to weaken - illegible
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unreadable
readable - jeer
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mock/a rude remark
/applause - lucrative
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profitable
unprofitable - mediocre
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average
outstanding - proliferate
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to reproduce
diminish - subjugate
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vanquish
surrender - sully
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pollute
purify - tantalize
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to tempt
satisfy - terse
-
brief
diffuse - unflinching
-
firm
wavering - abridge
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shorten
expand - adherent
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folower/attached
opponent - altercation
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quarrel
agreement - cherubic
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angelic
devilish - condone
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pardon (behavior)
condemn - dissent
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to disagree/ a disagreement
agree/harmony - eminent
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famous
obscure - exorcise
- expel
- fabricate
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to make
to demolish - irate
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angry
calm - marauder
- pirate or looter
- obesity
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excessive fatness
scrawniness - pauper
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extremely poor person
millionaire - pilfer
- swipe
- rift
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breach
reconcilliation - semblance
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appearance or air
contrast - surmount
-
conquer
to be vanquished - to terminate
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conclude
begin - trite
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overused
original - usurp
- commandeer
- abscond
- to run off and hide
- access
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admittance/obtain
exclusion - anarchy
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lack of government or disorder
law and order - arduous
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hard
easy - auspicious
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favorable
sinister - biased
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prejudiced
impartial - daunt
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intimidate
encourage - disentangle
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unravel
tangle up - fated
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destined
accidental - hoodwink
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deceive
undecieve - inanimate
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lifeless
alive - incinerate
- cremate
- intrepid
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fearless
cowardly - larceny
- theft
- pliant
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flexible
inflexible - pompous
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pretentious
plain - precipice
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cliff
abyss - rectify
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correct
mess up - reprieve
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a delay/to delay
/proceed - revile
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denounce
praise - accomplice
- partner in crime
- annihilate
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obliterate
encourage - arbitrary
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unreasonable
rational - brazen
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made of brass/impudent
/respectful - catalyst
- stimulus
- exodus
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emmigration
immigaration - faciliate
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to assist
hinder - incorrigible
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incurable (people, behavior)
curable - latent
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hidden
exposed - militant
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active in supporting a cause/an activist
passive - morose
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morbid
cheerful - opaque
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dense or hazy
transparent - paramount
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supreme
subordinate - prattle
- to babble/baby talk
- rebut
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disprove
confirm - reprimand
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to scold/a rebuke
to praise - servitude
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slavery
freedom - slapdash
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carless and hasty
thurough - stagnant
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inactive
flowing - succumb
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yield
overcome - atone
- to make up for
- bondage
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servitude
freedom - credible
-
believable
unbelieveable - defray
- to pay for
- diligent
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hardworking
lazy - doleful
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sad
cheerful - ghastly
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frightful
plesant - hamper
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to hinder
to ease - hew
- to chop or adhere
- impoverished
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poor
rich - incessant
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constant
ocasional - inticate
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complicated
simple - lucid
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clear
obscure - posthumous
- published after death
- prim
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proper
sloppy - sardonic
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bitterly sarcastic
saccharine - superfluous
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excess
vital - supplant
- to replace
- taunt
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to mock/an insulting remark
to cheer - tenacious
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persistant
yielding - adieu
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a farewell
a greeting - advent
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an arrival
an exodus - apex
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the highest point
bottom - assimilate
- incorperate
- bogus
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false
genuine - exorbitant
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excessive
affordable - interim
- the time between/temporary
- inundate
- to flood
- malign
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to slander/evil
to praise/kind - meander
- to roam
- metropolis
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a large city
village - momentous
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very important
trivial - obstreperous
-
noisy
quiet - pensive
- thoughtful
- perilous
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dangerous
safe - shoddy
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flimsy
sturdy - sprightly
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lively
dull - surly
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rude
polite - tirade
- a long angry speech or harangue
- vagrant
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tramp/wandering aimlessly
homebody - assurace
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promise
doubt - asylum
- sanctuary
- console
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to comfort/the keyboard of an organ/a control pannel
to agrivate - dilate
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expand
contract - dross
- trash
- dwindle
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decrease
increase - flippant
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disrepectful
respectful - immunity
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exemption
vulnerability - institute
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to establish/an academy
to terminate - liability
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debt
asset - preposterous
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ridiculous
reasonable - pugnacious
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quarrelsome
friendly - rabid
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furious
balsé - realm
- kingdom
- rejuvinate
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to revitalize
to exhaust - remunerate
- to compensate
- sparese
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scattered
teeming - sterling
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genuine
sham - venture
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gamble/to try
/to withdraw - warp
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to distort/irregularity
straighten - auxilary
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back-up
principal - candid
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frank, sincere
insincere - cubicle
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enclosure
auditorium - drudgery
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labor
play - envoy
- representitive
- escelate
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to elevate
decrease - expedient
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a means to an end
useful
inconvienient - feign
- to pretend
- flair
-
talent
inability - grievous
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painful
joyful - heterogeneous
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diverse
uniform - horde
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crowd
handful - impel
-
urge
restrain - incredulous
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dubious
believing - inscribe
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imprint
erase - monologue
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soliloquy
dialogue - prognosis
- prediction
- rasping
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scratchy
smooth - repugnant
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offensive
pleasing - scuttle
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abandon
salvage - adept
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expert
accomplished
unskilled - aspire
- to yearn
- bleak
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dreary
cheerful - chide
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to scold
praise - despicable
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contemtible
commendable - diminutive
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undersized
oversized - emancipate
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to liberate
enslave - erroneous
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incorrect
correct - exploit
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to utilize
deed - extemporaneous
- spontaneous
- impair
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to damage
improve - invincible
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unconquerable
conquerable - languid
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lethargic
lively - mire
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tough situation
to get stuck
marsh - obtrusive
-
forward
meek - preamble
-
opening
conclusion - render
- to make
- rugged
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strong, rough
smooth - skepticle
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dubious
believing - slipshod
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slapdash
neat