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Vocabulary Week #2

Vocabulary Week #2. English II. Abjure. verb to renounce, repudiate, or retract, esp. with formal solemnity. to avoid or shun. Syn: forswear, recant. Bellicose. adjective inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile. Syn: belligerent; pugnacious. Decorum. noun

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Vocabulary Week #2

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  1. Vocabulary Week #2 English II

  2. Abjure • verb • to renounce, repudiate, or retract, esp. with formal solemnity. • to avoid or shun. • Syn: forswear, recant.

  3. Bellicose • adjective • inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile. • Syn: belligerent; pugnacious.

  4. Decorum • noun • dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc. • the quality or state of being decorous; orderliness; regularity. • Syn: politeness, manners, dignity.

  5. Elated • adjective • To feel very happy or proud.

  6. Invoke • verb • to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for. • to call on (a deity, Muse, etc.), as in prayer or supplication. • to cause, call forth, or bring about.

  7. Profess • verb • to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to. • to declare openly; announce or affirm; avow or acknowledge: to profess one's satisfaction. • Syn: claim, allege, purport, avow.

  8. Quandary • noun • a state of perplexity or uncertainty, esp. as to what to do; dilemma. • Syn: predictament.

  9. Tacit • adjective • understood without being openly expressed; implied. • Syn: unexpressed, unspoken, unsaid, implicit. • Ant: expressed.

  10. Vanguard • noun • the foremost division or the front part of an army; advance guard; van. • the forefront in any movement, field, activity, or the like.

  11. Zealous • adjective • full of, characterized by, or due to zeal; ardently active, devoted, or diligent • Syn: enthusiastic, eager, fervid, fervent, intense, passionate, warm

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