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Elevating Vocabulary: Enhance Your Lexicon with Uncommon Words

Discover and expand your vocabulary with this curated list of unique and intriguing words, exploring meanings and usage examples. Enrich your communication skills and impress others with your linguistic prowess.

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Elevating Vocabulary: Enhance Your Lexicon with Uncommon Words

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  1. Vocabulary Unit 7 Level G

  2. Allay • (v.) • To calm or pacify; to lesson or relieve

  3. Bestial • (adj.) • Beastlike; beastly, brutal; subhuman in intelligence and sensibility

  4. Convivial • (adj.) • Festive, sociable, having fun together, genial

  5. Coterie • (n.) • A circle of acquaintances; a close-knit, often exclusive, group of people with a common interest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ_qXmxdgGM

  6. Counterpart • (n.) • a person or thing closely resembling or corresponding to another; a complement

  7. Demur • (v. or n.) • to object or take exception to; an objection

  8. Effrontery • (n.) • shameless boldness, impudence

  9. Embellish • (v.) • to decorate, adorn, touch up; to improve by adding details

  10. Ephemeral • (adj.) • lasting only a short time, short-lived

  11. Felicitous • (adj.) • appropriate, apt, well chosen; marked by well-being or good fortune, happy

  12. Furtive • (adj.) • done slyly or stealthily, sneaky, secret, shifty; stolen

  13. Garish • (adj.) • glaring; tastelessly showy or over decorated in a vulgar or offensive way

  14. Illusory • (adj.) • misleading, deceptive; lacking in or not based on reality

  15. Indigent • (adj.) • needy, impoverished

  16. Inordinate • (adj.) • far too great, exceeding reasonable limits, excessive

  17. Jettison • (v.) • to cast overboard, get rid of as unnecessary or burdensome

  18. Misanthrope • (n.) • a person who hates or despises people

  19. Pertinacious • (adj.) • very persistent; holding firmly to a course of action or a set of beliefs; hard to get rid of, refusing to be put off or denied

  20. Picayune • (adj.) • of little value or importance, paltry, measly; concerned with trifling matters, small-minded

  21. Raiment • (n.) • clothing, garments

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