Junior English

Complementary

Completing or enhancing

Dichotomy

Split into two or divided

Denizen

Inhabitant

Exotic

Foreign, unusual

Exemplify

To show as an example

Invest

Put recourses into

Paramount

Most important

Pragmatic

Practical

Replica

Exact copy

Stylized

Altered for effect

Chauvinism

Extreme patriotism or bias

Hector

Bully or intimidate

Machiavellian

Clever, tricky, doing whatever it takes

Martinet

Demands strict rules

Saturnine

Gloomy or moody

Silhouette

Dark outline or shape

Stentorian

Loud and powerful voice

Sybarite

Pleasure-seeker

Tawdry

Cheap and showy

Draconian

Excessively harsh

Auspices

Support and guidance

Explicate

To explain

Implicate

Involve or cause to appear guilty

Introspective

Inclined to examen ones own feelings and thoughts

Perspicuity

Clearness

Plait

Braid

Pliant

Easily controlled

Specious

Appearing true but actually false

Speculate

To wonder

Auspicious

Marked by success

Actuate

To put into action

Alleviate

To make more bearable

Beset

Persistently troubled

Dire

Serious and urgent

Fervent

Passionate

Fester

Infected

Heartening

Encouraging

Humanitarian

Promoting human welfare

Mobilize

To assemble

Zealous

Dedicated to a cause

Appellation

A name or title that distinguishes or identifies.

Bowdlerize

To remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive or inappropriate.

Cognate

Words that have a common origin or are related in meaning.

Doggerel

Unserious and bad poem

Oxymoron

Phrase that puts together two words that seem to mean the opposite of each other.

Paradigm

A typical example or pattern of something; a model or framework that shapes how we understand concepts.

Pastoral

Idealizes the rural life

Protagonist

The main character in a story, often facing challenges and driving the plot forward.

Vernacular

The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.

Parlance

A manner of speaking or the language used in a particular context or profession.

Accede

Agree to something

Concession

A thing that is granted

Defray

To pay for

Fractious

Irritable and difficult to control

Fragmentary

Broken or incomplete

Infraction

Breaking of the law

Intercession

Prayer on the behalf of someone else

Precedent

Action that can be used as an example

Recede

To move back from

Refractory

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