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1. APOTHECARY (N) A pharmacist
Sentence: All we had was Simon Finch, a fur-trading apothecary from Cornwall…
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2. ARBITRATE (V) 3. ASININE (Adj)
To settle or decide a dispute; to judge Sentence: Jem arbitrated [the argument], awarded me first push with an extra time for Dill, and I folded myself inside the tire. 3. ASININE (Adj) Sentence: ...we were not to play an asinine game he had seen us playing... Foolish; unintelligent; stupid in a silly way
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4. ASSUAGE (V) 5. AUSPICIOUS (Adj) to lessen or to calm
Sentence: ...Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged... to lessen or to calm 5. AUSPICIOUS (Adj) Favorable; fortunate Sentence: The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first.
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6. CHATTELS (N) 7. CONTEMPTUOUS (Adj) slaves
Sentence: So Simon, having forgotten his teacher’s [pronouncement] on human chattels, bought three slaves… 7. CONTEMPTUOUS (Adj) Showing or expressing hate or disdain; acting haughty or looking down on others Sentence: He gave a short contemptuous snort.
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8. CONTENTIOUS (Adj) 9. DIMINUTIVE (Adj)
Always ready to argue or fight Sentence: “Ain't got no mother,” was the answer, “and their [father’s] right contentious.” 9. DIMINUTIVE (Adj) Smaller than ordinary Sentence: He was among the most diminutive of men...
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10. DISAPPROBATION (N) 11. ENTAILMENT (N) Disapproval
Sentence: I'm afraid our activities would be received with considerable disapprobation by the authorities. 11. ENTAILMENT (N) Law stating that land can only be inherited by one’s children; the property cannot be broken up and sold to others Sentence: After a dreary conversation in our living room one night about his entailment...
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12. FRACTIOUS (Adj) 13. ILLICITLY (Adv)
Quickly angered; quarrelsome; mean or unruly Sentence: ...she had at last seen the error of her fractious ways... 13. ILLICITLY (Adv) Unlawful; unauthorized or improper Sentence: I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.
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14. IMPOTENT (Adj) 15. INDIGENOUS (Adj) powerless; helpless
Sentence: Simon would have regarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North and the South... 15. INDIGENOUS (Adj) from a particular region or country; native to Sentence: The class murmured apprehensively, should she choose to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region.
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16. NEBULOUS (Adj) 17. PREDILECTION (N)
Cloudy, hazy, or vague; unclear Sentence: Boo’s transition from the basement to back home was nebulous in Jem’s memory. 17. PREDILECTION (N) A preference, or a preferred way of doing something Sentence: The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb.
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18. SECEDE (V) To break away; to make a formal withdrawal
Sentence: When Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded from Alabama...
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19. TACITURN (Adj) Almost always silent
Sentence: She married a taciturn man…
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